About Jay Thatcher
The Early Years
Jay grew up spending late nights at the office while his parents met the deadline for their startup newspaper. This started a passion for typography and design.
After college and touring in a rock band, Jay began a career in product design… physical product: toy packaging, music, video, movie packaging, book covers, t-shirts, posters, and large displays.
From there came website design which led to an opportunity to design a web application for the oil industry. This opened a door to UX Design and digital products.
From Physical Product
To Digital Product
Why Jay?
Today
Jay is an experienced UX design leader with a reputation for collaboration with business executives, product managers, product analysts, data scientists, and engineers.
Experience includes:
- UX Product Design
- Design System Contribution
- Web Accessibility
- Design Leadership
Here’s What Others Say About Jay
Jay excels in understanding business requirements and users’ needs, putting them together to give the best user experience. He thinks through the complexities involved, bringing developers and business executives to a shared understanding.
Jay’s unique strength is he can get behind the story of what is going on to develop the user experience, marketing, software, branding, etc… better than anyone I have ever met. He listens and asks the right questions. Jay brings heart and empathy to every project.
When not doing UX Product Design…
Jay enjoys photography and designing physical things
