Deft provides creatively engineered solutions for complex business problems.
Our core team has more than 50 years of combined experience solving design challenges for companies ranging from nimble start-ups to robust corporations. Our strength is rooted in our diverse expertise and our passion for collaboration.
Deft Strategy is a multidisciplinary company devoted to holistic design that serves a range of clients.
We offer strategic design capabilities across a variety of industries, executed with expertise in Branding and Experience Design. By thoughtfully distilling our client's inspirations, ideas, and motivations, Deft generates fresh, sincere, compelling products and messages that engage and resonate with audiences around the world.
We work with our partners to improve their business and realize the true value of their brand, market, and technology investments.
Deft Strategy exists to deliver creative solutions for complex business problems. By partnering with our clients, we conceptualize and execute strategic design thinking with confidence and enthusiasm. It is our commitment to provide human-centered design innovations that improve the quality of our clients' products, services, and business.
Total Value Add 88%
Corporate Profiling 83%
Brand Profiling 94%
Brand Workshop96%
Graphical User Interface Design92%
Jason has more than 18 years of professional experience working and managing interactive and traditional media at firms such as Sapient and Scient. He is interested specifically in developing world class creative solutions that catapult businesses beyond their expectations. Jason is always driving creative leadership and exploring new ways to integrate the, 'Thread of Objectivity, within Deft and their clients creative process.
Christian Barnard has been designing things for over 20 years including consumer and business software, commercial websites, games, packaging and print design. With a focus on the business value of design, lean UX and design management, Christian has diverse experience in design research, interaction design, user experience strategy and design across the automotive, finance, healthcare, and energy industries.
Christian joins deft from frog design, where he was the VP of Delivery and spent the last several years improving how frog manages and delivers complex design problems for global clients. He has also held leadership positions at at&t where he led the user experience design team, and has also has held previous leadership positions in user experience and program management at consulting firms Sapient and Scient. Christian has a B.A. from Purdue University in Visual Communication Design, and a M.S. for Northwestern University in Systems Strategy and Management.
Tyler has a brilliantly creative mind, while retaining articulate communication and respectful business standards. As an innovative strategist, specializing in human-centered thinking that informs brand, product, and design ideas - Tyler brings originality to everything he touches and has a tireless passion for excellence and creative integrity. Tyler has had the opportunity to build several brands from the ground up that are generating high returns in their own industries.
We've spearheaded a lot of interactive projects for a lot of companies – from start-ups to fortune 500. Our core team has more than 50 years of combined experience solving design challenges for companies ranging from nimble start-ups to robust corporations. Our strength is rooted in our diverse expertise and our passion for collaboration.
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