Karl Emil James Koch.Equal parts designer & developer
Design Engineer at DuckDuckGo
I’m currently the inaugural Design Engineer at DuckDuckGo, focused predominantly on our Search and AI products alongside maintaining our core web design system.
I’m a functionalist and minimalist designer, obsessed with learning through practice. You’ll find lots of random experiments on this site, alongside regular bits changing from time to time.
This website is built using Next, Tailwind CSS and HeroUI. All content is powered by Cosmic. It’s fully typeset in KK Sans, my personal sans serif.
My side projects consist of multiple Next websites, Figma plugins written in Typescript, and both personal and public SwiftUI apps.
In my downtime I’m an avid aging skateboarder and musician, so when I’m not creating, I’m usually skating.
- 19 Mar 2025
Design Tools as a Means to an End Is design software a fortress of abstraction? Designers who shun code deliver unworkable concepts whilst facing endless developer questions.
- 18 Feb 2025
Interface as a Service Agentic interfaces will revolutionise interaction with digital systems via intelligent, unobtrusive service delivery.
- 06 Jan 2025
On the Importance of Taking a Break 32.4 years of your life spent working - that's a lot of Monday mornings to get through!
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Ever After Echoes ✺ 2022 ✺ E.P.
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