“As the Director of the Design team that Steve was on, I can definitely say that he was one of the most proactive people on the team. Always coming up with ideas, sharing them, doing research, and pushing ideas forward. He's a real go-getter who is passionate about his work, his team, and his impact. Many people across the company would share with me that they were impressed by Steve's constant ability to socialize new ideas, both within and outside of his direct scope. If you're looking for someone to dive in, learn quickly, research, and ideate, I highly recommend Steve.”

“I had a really great experience working with Steve at Checkr, especially as he teamed up with my software engineering team on our new customer acquisition product. Steve shined in content design and user experience, constantly improving how our product looked and felt. He always had a proactive approach, ready with suggestions that ranged from quick fixes to larger design changes, all of which directly contributed to business impact. Steve was not only quick to respond to any requests/questions but also incredibly dependable. His friendly demeanor made working together easy and productive. His efforts truly made a difference, enhancing our product in ways that really mattered.”

“Steve understands how to create user friendly content design for highly regulated industries. Steve has an intuitive understanding of explaining product usage and designing flows that are accessible to a wide audience. For example, he distilled complicated product function down to single sentence summaries that would enable any customer (regardless of sophistication) to understand what they would be getting. This encouraged customer adoption and decreased customer attrition in sign up. Moreover, his good humor, attention to detail, and proactive approach to cross-functional collaboration makes him a pleasure to work with. Steve would be a huge value add to any company.”

“I had the immense pleasure of collaborating closely with Steve Taylor while serving as Checkr's UX Research Manager. During our time working together, Steve consistently demonstrated not only exceptional skills in content design but also an unparalleled dedication to understanding and enhancing the overall user experience and products.

Steve’s contributions on the team extended far beyond his job title. He not only served as lead Content Designer across multiple complex projects, but also conducted user research, and stepped in as a product designer when resources were scarce. His ability to distill complex information into clear content and interactions made a measurable difference in our products and on our team. He was always ready to jump in and tackle the meatiest problems and get right to work; a trait that isn’t always easy to come by.

Perhaps one of Steve’s greatest strengths was his deep empathy for customers. This empathy was evident in all of his work, as he crafted content that was not only informative and clear but also resonant and engaging, truly connecting with our audience.

Outside of the day to day, Steve’s dedication to staying at the helm of industry trends was impressive. His commitment to continuous learning and improvement was infectious and elevated our team’s overall quality of work.

Bottom line: Steve is a powerhouse and I am overwhelmingly confident that Steve will bring his steadfast dedication and positive energy to any future role. He is not only a highly skilled content designer but a genuine team player and problem solver, capable of contributing significantly to an organization's success. Any team would be lucky to have him.”

“Steve is a very fast and research-driven content designer. He is efficient in his workflows and often comes back to our regular syncs tremendous amounts of progress in his projects. I've had the pleasure of working with Steve on a wide spread of Checkr products and he isn't shy to take the lead and put his expertise forward. Very often Steve takes the initiative to launch usability tests to validate his decisions and shares that data with the rest of the stakeholders for further alignment. Further, Steve has always showed a willingness to learn different tools to mark him as a true differentiator.

Steve is an incredible person to work with and he continuously pushes the standard of excellence.”

“Steve is one of the most thoughtful and dedicated content partners I've ever had the pleasure to work with. He consistently goes above and beyond in his work, proactively diving deep into research and putting together incredibly thoughtful recommendations for his projects and programs. His cross-functional relationship building and partnership is also phenomenal.

Steve drives innovation and creativity – and brings a huge amount of value to building thoughtful content design with impactful product function. He will be a huge value add to any team lucky enough to work with him.”

“In my time working with Steve, he demonstrated not only crystal-clear writing and comms design skills, but also a strong strategic perspective at every stage of the digital product lifecycle. Bringing him on to early-stage conceptual and design programs set our clients up for success by developing scalable communication frameworks that always kept the needs of the user at the forefront of the product.

He marries this depth of thinking with a driven, pragmatic, and detail-oriented approach to his writing, and this makes him a pleasure to work with, a trusted hand on any program, and an exceptional addition to any team.”

“Steve is one of the best writers I have ever had the opportunity to work with. His ability to dive into what he is writing about and bring it to life accurately, quickly and with style is uncanny. He's an amazing addition to any team he is on and will almost immediately make the work better by being a part of it.”

“Steve - it was a true pleasure to have Steve in our office. While it was only a month, it was immediately apparent his skill set and conceptual thinking was deep. His "can do" style and creative style are a nice blend that I know our entire team was appreciative of. This guy has a strong future!”

“I met Steve in month 11 of his Great Agency Adventure. For those not super close to his story, as part of his fascinating research on agency life, we were the 11th agency he'd worked out in 11 months. I expected him to be homesick and fairly fried from too many weeks on the road.

Not at all!

Steve jumped into the deep end of the pool on day one, working seamlessly with the team across projects and assignments as if he had been working on these accounts for years.

His writing is profound. I have several of his phrases still lodged in my head. He can be counted on for everything from anthemic manifesto videos to hard-working, no-nonsense email and banner copy.

We are probably among the ranks of agencies that tried to get him to stay, but he is committed to his Great Agency Adventure--for now ;)

If you want bravery, fresh-thinking, and wicked good copy, Steve is your guy.”