independent designer, programmer, and artist · making software with a soul
now
designing & prototyping 0-to-1 AI products with fun & ambitious clients
building poetry camera, a camera that prints poems · with ryan mather
building TRASH BABY, a chaotic image mixing app · with artbreeder & angelo saraceno
past
creative programming residency at the recurse center · fall 2023
staff product designer at twitter, leading design for twitter spaces · 2021–2022
adjunct professor of interaction design at SVA · 2019–2021
designed progressive political tech for the 2020 election · 2019–2021
design lead & first design hire at ueno. (design studio acquired by twitter) · 2015–2019
bachelors degree in computer science from MIT
clients
apple, dropbox, google, facebook, reuters, sotheby's, uber, visa
and lots of early-stage startups :)
contact
twitter: @kelin_online
instagram: @kelin.online
tiktok: @kelin.online
extremely occasional newsletter: buttondown.email/asdfxyz
email with the government name: hi@carolynzhang.com
linkedin: who is she
tell me you like my work: buy me a coffee
miscellaneous
poetry camera featured in Popular Mechanics · jan 2024
interview for UX/UI/AI Product Design Class, with Derrick Schultz · jan 2024
interview for Think in 4D podcast, with Erica Heinz · dec 2023
pomo.chat, a social pomodoro app · aug 2023
i use a flip phone every winter · 2022–present
chatGPT prompts for interactive worldbuilding games · dec 2022
syllabus for my SVA class, Design in the Real World · 2019–2021
free ideas · feb 2021
why is this site so barebones? aren't you a designer?
it feels more honest this way.
last updated april 2024