Krystyna Ewing
UX Designer / Creative Technologist
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.
I design software, make art, build things, break things, and have a hard time leaving anything alone when I know it could work better.
Archive · non-linear
Five investigations, one restless practice.
ResiliencePoint
P–01 · Capstone
HazAdapt · Lead UX Designer · 2023 to 2024
We built what we thought people needed. Then the evidence changed the product.
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Trusted local safety information, placed where people are already looking for preparedness guidance.
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Bite-sized preparedness activities people can actually finish — and return to.
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Financial tools built to protect autonomy, not just assets.
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Turning a nonprofit's scattered well and sensor data into a monitoring workflow people can actually act on.
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Also true · Art, experiments, things I make
The workbench
Apparently I can't leave things alone. {{ benchHint }}
- 3D printing & fabrication
- Sculpture & mixed media
- Illustration & 3D modeling
- Creative coding
- Strange prototypes
I had an idea. Unfortunately, that meant I had to make it.
Silver Skull · 3D printed, hand-painted
Majin Buu · 3D printed, hand-painted
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.
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
Photography Credits
Homepage cicada photograph by Maya Alexa G. Romero on Unsplash. Licensed under the Unsplash License.