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Nate Irons

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Illinois, United States

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  • Seesaw
    Senior Product Designer
    Seesaw
    Mar 2022 - Current (4 years 6 months)
    Designed and launched Reading Fluency, an Al-powered assessment with class-level reporting that drove 10-15% higher adoption of Seesaw's premium packages across districts, expanding differentiated literacy instruction at scale. Delivered Focus Mode, reducing classroom distractions and adopted by 20%+ of monthly active teachers, improving both student engagement and teacher satisfaction. Accelerated uptake of the Formative Assessment suite, generating 660K+ student posts in 3 months (4% of platform activity), reinforcing Seesaw as a daily classroom tool. Shipped 10+ features, including Flexcards and Read-with-Me, expanding Seesaw's interactive learning toolkit and helping secure new district contracts. Mentored junior designers and introduce
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    Product Designer
    Springbuk
    Aug 2021 - Mar 2022 (8 months)
    Built Springbuk's first scalable design system, standardizing workflows and cutting design-to-dev time, which improved product quality across engineering teams. Designed health analytics dashboards that translated complex claims and benefits data into clear insights, enabling HR and benefits leaders at enterprise clients to make evidence-based decisions using data visualization. Embedded the design system into SAFe processes, aligning design with engineering practices in a complex, cross-functional healthcare tech environment.
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    Product Designer
    Spot (RED Technologies)
    Aug 2020 - Aug 2021 (1 year 1 month)
    Designed and launched the "Re-loads" feature, increasing logistics revenue by 13% by improving repeat orders and building loyalty among enterprise freight customers. Led end-to-end design for 4 products (3 responsive web, 1 mobile), balancing user research, prototyping, and launch under tight timelines in a fast-moving logistics market. Built a design system as the sole designer, creating reusable Ul components that accelerated delivery and ensured consistency across customer-facing and internal tools.
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    Freelance - Product Designer
    Jun 2019 - Mar 2022 (2 years 10 months)
    Delivered UX audits, redesigns, and prototypes for startups, simplifying workflows and improving usability to support early product-market fit.
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    Product Designer
    ClearObject
    Jun 2019 - Aug 2020 (1 year 3 months)
    Facilitated design sprints that aligned stakeholders and accelerated product delivery. Shipped 3 MVPs that secured multi-year customer contracts, directly impacting revenue growth. Designed across 3 product lines in agile sprints, maintaining consistency under rapid release cycles.
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    Human-Centered Design for AI
    Jan 2024
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    Perception & Memory in HCI/UX
    Jan 2023
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    Orr Fellowship
    Jan 2019 - Jan 2020 (1 year 1 month)
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    Google Associate Cloud Engineer
    Jan 2019
  • Indiana University
    B.S. Informatics
    Indiana University
    Jan 2019
    Minor: Human-Centered Computing & Creative Media Advertising