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Karl Emil James Koch

Software designer, developer, writer, and musician

Leading Product Design, DesignOps and Design Systems at Moneybox. Leading Design at Cosmic.

Writing

Strip your URLs to super simple domains
Since I’ve been working with frontend code, RegEx (short for Regular Expression) has been a constant and confusing minefield. RegEx has been around since the early 50’s, and with it comes a tonne of power but also a tonne of complexity.
Designing API-first
The power of visualising your API as part of your design process to align the entire team
How to make friends and influence designers
Why every design crit should be presented on slides

Apps and projects

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Plugins.run
Figma utility plugins
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Hand››over
Conversions at your finger tips
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Lazy PDF
Effortless PDF creation

Recent features

Raycast Community Stories
Feature
Friends of Figma, Maiduguri
Speaking
Product30 Podcast
Speaking

Albums

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Bad Dream
Slowdance • 2019
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Cornerstone
Echoes • 2017
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The Pursuit
Echoes • 2014

Bookmarks

Figma - Advanced Tips and Tricks for Figma Users | Figma is a piano. Go from playing Hot Cross Buns to Flight of the Bumblebee :)
Slider view in SwiftUI
Photo by Adi Goldstein on Unsplash Slider is a control for selecting a value from a bounded linear range of values.
How To Learn Stuff Quickly
It's often said that the internet has democratized education: the sum of human knowledge is only a Google search away! And yet, having access to information is only half of the story; you also need to be able to convert raw information into usable skills.
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