Jason Cranford Teague

Jason Cranford Teague is a designer, educator, and mentor with more than thirty years of experience building digital products and teaching the craft to others. He has taught UX Design, Storytelling for UX, and Creative Concept Design at Drexel University; Experience Design at Guilford College; and advised the Customer Experience program at the University of Richmond.

On ADPList he is ranked in the global Top 100 Mentors, working with designers at every career stage — recent graduates building their first portfolio, mid-career practitioners navigating a pivot, and senior designers developing their leadership voice. He also works directly with teams through workshops, structured critique sessions, and custom curriculum design for organizations building design capability from the inside out.

Jason Cranford Teague has been designing for the web since 1994 — before CSS was a standard, before smartphones existed, and long before “UX” was a job title. Over more than thirty years he has worked as a designer, strategist, author, educator, and mentor, developing a philosophy of teaching that is grounded in practice rather than theory.

His approach to coaching and education starts from the conviction that design thinking should be embedded in how people work, not delivered as a separate methodology. Courses, workshops, and mentorship sessions are built around real problems: how to communicate a design decision under pressure, how to run a critique without it becoming personal, how to build a portfolio that shows judgment rather than just output.

Jason has taught UX Design, Storytelling for UX, and Creative Concept Design at Drexel University (2023–2025), Experience Design at Guilford College, and served as an advisor to the Customer Experience program at the University of Richmond. On ADPList he holds a Top 100 Global Mentor ranking, with hundreds of sessions across career transitions, portfolio development, design systems strategy, and the craft of communicating design decisions to non-design stakeholders.

His nineteen books on web design and technology — covering CSS, JavaScript, typography, and interface design — are themselves a body of teaching work: each one an attempt to make a complex technical subject legible to a practitioner audience. That same instinct drives his coaching: finding the clearest path from where someone is to where they want to go.

Jason works with individuals, teams, and organizations on 1:1 mentorship, team workshops, design critique, curriculum design, and career transition support. He is available remotely and in person.