Karl Emil James Koch.

Equal parts designer & developer

I’m currently the inaugural Design Engineer at DuckDuckGo, leading the design and frontend of our AI-Assisted Answers as part of our core Search product.

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 Catalyst. 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.