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Krystyna Ewing

UX designer, creative technologist, artist & maker.

UX · Art · Technology
Beautifully unhinged

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.

Selectedwork

Index of exhibits · 05

HazAdapt ecosystem · 2021 to present →

  1. 01 · Featured

    Resilience­Point

    HazAdapt · Lead UX Designer · 2023 to 2024

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

    Read the case study →

    ↖ ruined me for shipping without evidence, honestly.

  2. HazAdapt · Lead UX Designer · 2023 to 2024

    Bringing trusted local safety information directly into HazAdapt's Hazard Guides.

    Read the case study →

    02

    LoCo

  3. HazAdapt · Lead UX Designer · Web, Mobile Web

    Bite-sized preparedness activities people actually finish.

    Read the case study →

  1. 04 · Company collection

    True Link
    Financial

    Financial tools built to protect autonomy, not just assets.

  2. Standalone · UX / UI Designer · Student project

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

    View case study →

    where should I look first?

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
Digital illustration by Krystyna Ewing — a figure in a soft cap reaching a hand forward out of shadow.
ReachDigital illustration

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.
Self-PortraitDigital illustration
An early, unfinished sketch mixing loose line art with a hand-lettered name banner.
First Pass · Sketch

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.

See what else I've been making →

About · wall label

Artist
Krystyna Ewing, Detroit-born
Medium
Software, UX, art, 3D printing, curiosity
Hours
Including 1am

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.

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