henry tavarez

I make dense software feel like it wants to be used.

Design lead for complex, high-stakes systems: public health platforms, enterprise tools, and products for people doing serious work under time pressure.

NBS surveillance dashboard: triage queues, a conditions map, and workload tiles on one morning screen

Modernizing disease surveillance

centers for disease control · 2023–25 · queue triage, design system, uswds/508

Tessera workspace: the model board as cards, with the Event Coordinator detail panel open showing per-field provenance

A thinking layer for the AI builder era

tessera · 2025–26 · founder · schema, three editing surfaces · built with claude code

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