Our mission is straightforward:
We partner with IU teams to plan, test, and design great experiences.
On the front lines
A great experience doesn’t happen on its own.
Meet the people who make it happen.
Tara Bazler
UX Researcher
Tara is a UX Architect with over 16 years of experience. Her background includes UX research, interaction and interface design, as well as management. She is passionate about creating clean, effective designs and simplifying the process for users to accomplish their goals. Outside of work, Tara enjoys relaxing and recharging by hiking, running, kayaking, photography - anything that allows her to explore the great outdoors.

Michael Dalton
Content Strategist
As Content Strategist for the UX Office, Michael works with developers and content owners and managers to maintain and present content — data, copy, and concepts — in ways that are clear, efficient, and useful to everyone, helping devise solutions that emphasize single-sourcing, reuse, and minimalism. Michael enjoys travel and getting in way over his head on home improvement projects.

Caitlyn Hymer
UX Designer
As a User Experience Designer, Caitlyn analyzes and creates products that provide meaningful and desirable interactions for users. She has a diverse background in multiple forms of creative media including traditional and digital design, photography, fine art and video production. Caitlyn enjoys keeping up with cutting edge technology, exploring the world with her camera, playing video games, and spending time with her family and pets.

Paco Wong
UX Engineer
Paco is a Marketing and Informatics student at IU. As a UX Engineer, he loves to create and implement designs to solve the day-to-day issues that he sees. Paco looks to improve himself through classes and his work at UXO. In his free time, Paco likes to swim, listen to music, tell stories through photography, and travel.
Meet the Digital Campus Design teams
These teams focus on university-wide digital resources like Rivet and the IU Web Framework, and core properties like iu.edu.
UXO focuses on software—and works closely with other Digital Campus Design teams—to better UX at IU.
- Alan Milner
Core Properties Leader - Cody Thompson
Lead UX/UI Designer - Lee Hadley
Developer - Ken Jones
Developer - Josh Lamar
Developer
- Levi McGranahan
Design Systems Leader - Rachel O'Connor
Front-End Developer - Zachary Todd
Developer
- Allison Chandran
Web Standards Leader - Scott Murray
Developer - Qiwen Zhu
Developer