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Kelin Carolyn Zhang
Independent Designer & Educator
Making software with a soul
Now
Building Poetry Camera, a camera that prints poems of what it sees
with Ryan & Evan
Resident Creative Technologist @ SVA MFA IXD
Designing & prototyping 0-to-1 AI products with fun & ambitious clients
Past
Entrepreneur-in-residence @ AIR
2025
Teaching AI Software Design Studio @ RISD
2024–2025
Imported the viral olympic muffins to NYC
Aug 2024
Built TRASH BABY, a chaotic image mixing app
Fall 2023
With Artbreeder & Angelo
Creative programming residency at Recurse Center
Fall 2023
Staff Product Designer at Twitter, leading design for Twitter Spaces
2021–2022
Adjunct Professor of Interaction Design at SVA
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2019–2021
Designed progressive political tech for the 2020 election
2019–2020
Design Lead & First Design Hire at Ueno. (Design Studio Acquired by Twitter)
2015–2019
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science from MIT
Clients
- Apple
- Dropbox
- Reuters
- Sotheby's
- Uber
- Visa
And lots of early-stage startups :)
Contact
- Twitter: @kelin_online
- Instagram: @kelin.online
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- Email: hi@kelin.online
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- Tell me you like my work: Buy Me a Coffee
Miscellaneous
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Poetry Camera Talk at Config
May 2025 -
Interview on AI Design Education, with Carly Ayres
Oct 2024
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Interview for Reboot Podcast
Jul 2024 -
Interview for Ladies Who Create Podcast
Jun 2024 -
Poetry Camera Featured in TechCrunch
Apr 2024 -
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 -
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.
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- 2020–2022
- 2019
Last Updated Sep 2025
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