👋🏻 Hi, I’m Nate.

Sr Product Designer with 6+ years of experience.

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

AI Generated Activities (2025)

Problem
Teachers are often required to use their school-provided curriculum, and it's often easier for them to print out the given activities and grade them by hand than take the time to manually recreate those activities in Seesaw.

Impact

Delivered in 2 months; teachers could instantly reuse curriculum in Seesaw with a few simple steps.
Strengthened Seesaw’s AI positioning in EdTech that aligns with new governemnt funding.
Implemented new usability testing methods and documentation to quickly validate with AI prototyping + unmoderated usability tesing.

Solution
Upload curriculum PDF → smart defaults → interactive, auto-graded activities ready to assign/share.

View Case Study

Generate activity with AI landing page

First step in converting a resource

Example output of generated activity

AI Reading Fluency Assessment (2024)

Problem
It can be very challenging, manual, and time intensive for teachers to perform reading fluency assessments. Developments in research into how children learn to read has resulted in a dramatic shift away from some reading instruction strategies and towards Science of Reading methods of explicit phonics instruction. State policies and education budgets are aligning with this shift.

Team goal: Provide a set of premium features in a new product package to support our internal Curriculum team building new early literacy packages as well as supporting the sales team overall.

Impact

three months post launch, the new product package was adopted by 25% of monthly active teachers
Direct feedback highlighting how much time this has saved teachers
15% increase in total sales, showing clear impact for both teachers and the business

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.