Karl Emil James Koch.
Equal parts designer & developer

Design Engineer at DuckDuckGo

Today

I’m currently the inaugural Design Engineer at DuckDuckGo, focused on our Search and AI products. I’m also building d×e—a platform for design engineers to learn and grow—on the side with my buddy Hugo.

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.js, Cosmic CMS, Tailwind and Next UI. It’s fully typeset in KK Sans, my personal functionalist sans serif.

My side projects consist of multiple Next.js 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.

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