Andrew Deegear

Product Design Lead and Design Technologist with 10+ years' experience spearheading UX flows, design systems, and innovative concepts.My expertise: Solving complex problems, Component management, Human-centered design, Prototyping and usability testing, Experience optimization, and Agile discovery and delivery.

Setting up a team

For the past 3 years I've been leading a team to reimagine highly complex, billion dollar, Commercial Real Estate flows.

FinTech flowin'

Designed applications with advisors, retail users, and devs for nearly 5 years.

A fistful of dollars

A 3 year dip into agency life as a freelancer.

© Andrew Deegear 2025

Down with the System

I inherited a basic design system which I continuously evolved, based on usage and tech needs, creation of a Design Council and managing a component library.

Design Demo-lition

Set up and smoothed out the 'dog and pony show' for our design work.

It's Party Time

Getting the right people on an order is crucial to closing it on time—the number of potential parties involved here is mind-numbing.I kicked off the project and then guided one of my Senior Designers in how to structure this beast, including her setting boundaries with a PM who liked to skip research and a front-end engineer who played designer.

Trust the Process

Inspired by a book on owning your own processes (E-myth Revisited), I put pen to proverbial paper and forged our agreements among the team and with our partners.This clarified a large amount of uncertainty and let the team focus on what they do best—design.

Check, One-Two...

We all can remember the lengthy checklist when closing on a home—this is the big brother of that on the commercial side.It's interactive and digital, however, speeding up the process and allowing for much more variation and convenience.(More to come)

It's Important to Stay Mobile

Pushing the envelope for CRE on mobile.(More to come)

Schwab Transfer

DevOps: GitHub Blog Platform

Created for development-savvy bloggers desiring to internally socialize their team's work.I worked with Executive Greg Storey, of OG WordPress fame, to strategize and launch these.

DesignOps: Testing and Kanban

Pioneered in-house Design Validations for USAA Design, cutting turnaround time from 3 weeks to 4 days.Also, converted team to a continuous delivery kanban process instead of scrum to reduce time wasted pointing, carrying over, and repointing.

Fund Recommendation for Advisors

When on the phone with a member, Advisors needed a tool to help them select the right fund and to generate the right documentation for support and regulation.

Robo-Advisor

In 2016 we launched a trimmed-down investment advisor to compete with the headline-grabbing Wealthfront. Here are several areas where I contributed.

The Good, the Bad and the Web Design

A small sampling of past web design projects.Each project typically involved collaborating on the design, coding into a CMS, and setting up the server.