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Columbus, Ohio · raised in Detroit

Krystyna Ewing

UX Designer / Creative Technologist

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

Based
Columbus, Ohio
Raised
Detroit
Years
8+
See the work

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.

  • Software
  • UX
  • Art
  • 3D Printing

Selected Work

4 case studies
ResiliencePoint dashboard: trending hazards, a map of HazAdapt usage by area across the US, and community activity cards.

01HazAdaptLead UX Designer2023–2024

ResiliencePoint

Making Sense of the Chaos

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

Two desktop monitors showing the HazAdapt Hazard Guide and an Avalanche Prep Check activity.

02LoCo & Prep ChecksUX Research2023–2024

HazAdapt

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

WellDone dashboard: a map of wells in Cambodia, functional and non-functional pump percentages, recent reports, tickets, and a pumps table.

04WellDoneUX/UI Design · Monitoring2022

WellDone

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

The Workbench

Apparently I can't leave things alone.

  • 3D printing & fabrication
  • Sculpture & mixed media
  • Illustration & 3D modeling
  • Creative coding
  • Strange prototypes
See what else I've been making

About

Detroit → Columbus

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.

Where I've worked
OrganizationRole
HazAdaptLead UX Designer
Pentagon Federal Credit UnionCreative Technologist
JPMorgan ChaseUX Designer
True Link FinancialUX Designer
Move HQUX Designer
Operation CodeUX Designer & Evangelist
ExpedientAssociate Analyst

Found something that doesn't work? Tell me.

hello@krystynaewing.com