Hi, I'm Tanner
About Me
I'm a UX designer based in Seattle with nearly 10 years of experience creating solutions that genuinely impact the people who use them. I do my best work on complex and obscure problems, the ones where the requirements shift halfway through, moving with speed without losing precision. Outside of work I'm usually outdoors with a camera. Photography has taught me to slow down and see the details of a scene, and that habit shows up in my design work too: I notice the small things that make something not just usable, but enjoyable.
Featured Projects
Designing Belonging
The Gates Foundation + Macmillan Learning
Spanning the course of three years, this project was a partnership with the Gates Foundation to help create a courseware solution to help improve the sense of belonging and metacognition in Black, Latino, Indigenous, and lower-income students.
Macmillan AI Standardization
Macmillan Learning
Fifteen AI implementations had accumulated across four Macmillan products with no shared foundation. I led the audit and standardization of AI Chat Interfaces and Content Creation into a reusable, atomic component system built for Macmillan's design system.
Cultural Readings
Vista Higher Learning
A four-week design sprint to pull Vista Higher Learning's Cultural Readings out of the color-coded lesson flow and into an immersive experience, one that drops students into the geography and culture of the language they're learning.
AI Mini-Game Builder
Macmillan Learning
A two-part system pairing a Claude Skill with a Claude Code prompt template, built to turn an educator's idea for a mini-game into a working, on-brand prototype in Macmillan's own design system.
