KrystynaEwing

Role

UX Designer / Creative Technologist

Based

Columbus, Ohio

Focus

Software · UX · Art · 3D Printing

Specimen — Cicadidae, dorsal view Field note

Macro photograph of a cicada, wings spread, viewed from above against a black background.

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Attached — Full Bio

I'm a designer, artist, developer, and general maker of things. I started in software development, moved into UX because I wanted more room to be creative, and apparently never learned how to pick one thing and stick with it.

I've spent the last 8+ years designing, building, testing, breaking things, and figuring out how to make them work better. Outside of UX, I make art, build 3D prints, mess around with code, and start projects because I thought, “I wonder if I could make that.”

Usually I can. Sometimes I absolutely cannot. Either way, I'm probably going to try.

01 — Wing vein. Branching, load-bearing structure — the same kind of logic I look for in an interface, just evolved instead of drawn.

02 — Thorax. Built to vibrate loud enough to find a mate from a quarter mile off. No notes app required.

Photograph by Maya Alexa G. Romero on Unsplash, licensed under the Unsplash License. Desaturated and tinted to match the site.

I design software, make art, build things, break things, and have a hard time leaving anything alone when I know it could work better.

Five projects, one restless practice

Selected Work

Platform dashboard Case study

ResiliencePoint

Making Sense of the Chaos

HazAdapt · Lead UX Designer · 2023–2024

We built what we thought people needed. Then the evidence changed the product.

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HazAdapt product collection Case study

HazAdapt

LoCo & Prep Checks · UX Research · 2023–2024

Local safety information and bite-sized prep activities — two product lines built to make preparedness something people actually do.

→ Explore HazAdapt

True Link product collection Case study

True Link Financial

Financial UX · Workflow Design · 2023

Financial tools built to protect autonomy, not just assets.

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WellDone product collection Case study

WellDone

UX/UI Design · Monitoring · 2022

Turning a nonprofit's scattered well and sensor data into a monitoring workflow people can actually act on.

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True Link · Beneficiary Profile → True Link · Create Draft Disbursements → HazAdapt ecosystem · 2021–present →

Also true — art, experiments, things I make

The Workbench

Apparently I can't leave things alone. Grab the tape to move things around. Arrow keys work too.

3D printing & fabrication
Sculpture & mixed media
Illustration & 3D modeling
Creative coding
Strange prototypes

Digital illustration by Krystyna Ewing — a figure in a soft cap reaching a hand forward out of shadow. — **No. 01 — Reach**Digital illustration

Note

I had an idea. Unfortunately, that meant I had to make it.

Hand-drawn self-portrait illustration by Krystyna Ewing: a character with a purple bucket hat and glowing green eyes, with her name lettered around it in purple marker. — **No. 02 — Self-Portrait**Digital illustration

An early, unfinished sketch mixing loose line art with a hand-lettered name banner. — No. 03 — First Pass · Sketch

No. 04 — Silver Skull · 3D printed, hand-painted

No. 05 — Majin Buu · 3D printed, hand-painted

More to come

A couple of the physical pieces made it onto the table. More — sculpture, prints, anything made with my hands instead of a tablet — is still getting photographed.

See what else I've been making →

About

Detroit-born, lifelong artist, and someone with a bad habit of needing to know how things work. That curiosity took me from software development into UX, and it still shows up in accessibility reviews, 3D printing experiments, and whatever I'm building at 1am.

Detroit-born
Started in software, ended up in UX
Usually awake at 1am, building something

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