Portrait of Nate Irons

👋🏻 Hi, I’m Nate.

Sr Product Designer

I currently lead design for teacher and student facing experiences at Seesaw Learning, including integrated and generative AI. In the past, I have designed consumer and enterprise products across cloud computing, healthcare, logistics, and education.

Located in Fishers, IN

Selected Work

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AI Generated Activities (2025)

Project Goal
This project focused on reducing the time and friction required for teachers to use Seesaw alongside mandated curriculum resources, while preserving the platform’s core value: multimedia reflection, auto-graded assessments, and voice and translation scaffolding for pre-readers and multilingual learners.

Solution
I designed Activity Assistant, an AI-powered tool that supports generating activities from uploaded curriculum or from a simple prompt. The experience prioritizes speed, clarity, and editability.

Impact

About 35 minutes saved per activity. Teachers estimated activity creation now takes ~10 minutes instead of 30–45 minutes manually.

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Generate activity with AI landing page

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First step in converting a resource

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Example output of generated activity

Redesign of Student Activity Experience (2025)

Problem
Students needed assistence to start and move through activityies, taking up valuable teacher time. We needed to reapproach the activity design to make it more intuitive for all learners.

Solution
Simplified activity cards, persistent bottom navigation with clear Next/Back controls, visible progress indicators, and smart prevention/recovery checks that guide students to incomplete pages without teacher intervention.

Impact

  • Students across grade levels completed multi-page activities without navigation-related prompts.
  • Teachers reported smoother classroom flow and fewer interruptions during independent work time.
  • Support tickets related to incomplete or mis-navigated activities decreased after rollout.
Student Activity Nav Updated

Streamlined Student Activity Experience

AI Reading Fluency Assessment (2024)

Problem
It can be very challenging, manual, and time intensive for teachers to perform reading fluency assessments for each individual student.

Solution
An easy to use reading formative assessment creation and reporting experience. The reporting view allows teachers to easily see what students need help and which are on track. It also gives quick insight to which exact words or phrases the class struggle with as a whole.

For students, an easier to use voice-recording interaction so it's clear and easy for them to complete assessments without teacher support.

Impact

  • three months post launch, this was adopted by 10% of monthly active teachers
  • 15% increase in total sales, showing clear impact for both teachers and the business
  • Direct feedback highlighting how much time this has saved teachers
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Student interaction for recording voice

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Class level reporting

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Student level reporting

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Common errors with bulk corrections

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