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K. EWING

KrystynaEwing

Role

UX Designer / Creative Technologist

Based

Detroit, Michigan

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.

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.

Readout — 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.

Five projects, one restless practice

Selected Work

True Link · Beneficiary Experience → 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. {{ 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.
No. 01 — ReachDigital 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-PortraitDigital 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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