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Tucker Harris

digital designer & creative developer

+ Art, data viz, and pun enthusiast in Washington, D.C.

I make creative, impactful web products that give meaningful stories and big ideas a way to connect with audiences.

Art Direction, Web Design, UX/UI Design, Web Development, Illustration

Based in Washington, DC, I work with experts from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) to help them communicate their research more effectively on the web. Together we make websites, data visualizations, and long-forms that strengthen their networks and engage new audiences with thoughtful content and design strategies.

Work

Dive into the making of these individual products.

Other Projects

  • Long-form Storytelling

    New research by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) shows that the shipyards at the heart of modernizing the Chinese navy also attract billions of dollars of revenue and technology transfers from companies around the world. Are these foreign orders modernizing China’s navy?

    This product was made with the Shorthand platform, though I also dove into the template with extra HTML, CSS, and Javascript to make sure the styles and functionalities supported the narrative. I created all data visualizations, maps, and satellite imagery annotations.

    • Year: 
      2022
    • Client: 
      CSIS
    • Role: 
      • Art Direction, 
      • Front-End Development, 
      • Graphic Design, 
      • Web Design
    • Product Team: 
      • Matthew P. Funaiole – Content Expert/Author
      • Joseph S. Bermudez Jr. – Imagery Analysis
      • Brian Hart – Content Expert/Research Support
      • Jaehyun Han, Jennifer Jun, Samantha Lu – Content Support
  • Website Redesign

    The Missile Threat website was in dire need of a redesign after 5+ years of producing content. Their site organization and breadth of information had grown and changed over the years, and I had been helping them put band-aids on issues for a while. I was so excited when they approached us for a redesign! I could finally help root some of the pain-points and build structures that could accommodate their evolution and the variety of information they had to offer.

    • Year: 
      2021
    • Client: 
      Missile Defense Project, CSIS
    • Role: 
      • Information Architecture, 
      • Web Design
    • Product Team: 
      • Lindsay Urchyk – Developer

  • This is a standalone project created to launch alongside the "Beyond the Brink" report by the CSIS Simon Chair. It is a brief, three-question game where users play as either the U.S. or China and make choices that can either escalate or deescalate a trade war. In addition to the design of the page, I created the illustrations.

    • Year: 
      2018
    • Client: 
      The Simon Chair, CSIS
    • Role: 
      • Illustration, 
      • Web Design
    • Product Team: 
      • Jacque Schrag – Developer

  • This scrollytelling data visualization is a standalone project that looks at the decline in manufacturing employment in the United States over the last thirty years. Illustrated through maps (via Mapbox) and satellite imagery, the CSIS Trade Commission studied the one hundred counties most exposed to the shifting economy and how these communities are faring in the modern economy.

    • Year: 
      2020
    • Client: 
      CSIS Trade Commission, CSIS
    • Role: 
      • Web Design
    • Product Team: 
      • Serven Maraghi – Developer

  • The website was designed to serve as a digital companion to “The New Southbound Policy: Deepening Taiwan's Regional Integration”, a comprehensive report published by CSIS in January 2018.

    • Year: 
      2018
    • Client: 
      The China Power Project, CSIS
    • Role: 
      • Information Architecture, 
      • Web Design
    • Product Team: 
      • Matthew Funaiole – Content Expert
      • Jacque Schrag – Developer
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Lady Liberty ascends
Lady Liberty ascends

Illustrations from Stepping Up Trade Leadership

Cartograms of the global middle class
Cartograms of the global middle class

From in CSIS's Stepping Up Trade Leadership, these cartograms (triggered on scroll) illustrate how the global middle class is shifting towards East and South Asia.

Valentine Collection I
Valentine Collection I

Every year I draw Valentines for my friends... they are mostly puns.

Valentine Collection II
Valentine Collection II

More hand-drawn Valentines.

Beeswarms of survey results
Beeswarms of survey results

I conceptualized and created these data visualizations for CSIS's report "Public Opinion in China: A Liberal Silent Majority?".

About

I am the Lead Web & Digital Product Designer in the iDeas Lab at CSIS

My gateway to design was my love of Art—looking at it, studying it, making it. The science surrounding human perception, communication, and creativity fascinates me to this day.

But it was several years of work at an art museum—first as a curatorial assistant and then in Graphics for the Exhibition Design Department—that instilled a deep respect for the power of a well-designed experience. I loved watching the curator and designer collaborate, seeing scholarly pursuits evolve into exhibitions that made complex and abstract ideas accessible to so many more people.

As a web designer and front-end developer at CSIS, I've helped think tank experts build a web presence and hone their content, giving them an opportunity to connect with their audiences in clearer, more imaginative ways.

I've lead the strategy and design of web projects large and small on topics such as national security, international relations, energy, the environment, global health, and human rights. Every new product is an exciting opportunity to mold complex analysis and data into a clear, compelling, and accessible form.

I work closely with developers throughout these projects and collaborate with other members of a multidisciplinary team to produce graphics, data visualizations, and videos under a unified vision.

Services & Stacks
art direction, experience and interface design (ux-ui), graphic design, design systems and component libraries, branding and identities, motion design, illustration, and pretty much anything else I set my mind to.
Design Figma, Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop, Sketch
Development CSS/SASS, Git, HTML, Javascript, Jekyll, Liquid, PHP, Wordpress theme & block development
Other Bodymovin/Lottie, Datawrapper, Mapbox
Recognition