I am a designer who codes, and I believe creativity comes from curiosity.
Playground
Draw something, leave a thought, or say hello.
Posted from this canvas.
Your drawing
could live here.
AI can write poetry.
The craft lives outside the poem.
GitHub ↗
will animate anything that sits still
fluent in React, CSS & curiosity
60fps feelings only
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Designer by instinct / engineer by training /
half poet, half prototyper /
a storyteller in a compiler’s clothing —
I live where design, engineering, and stories collide.
Code gives my ideas another language. I use it to shape interactions, bring designs to life, and tell more meaningful stories.
I make motion and animation with React and JavaScript.
Things that compile, and some that almost do.
KALIPENG · SHE/HER
kelly peng
Parsons — Communication Design
University of Washington — Design Engineering
A collection of experimental work,
creative explorations, and design experiments.
Subject as language.
The self changes with context.
Like the meaning of a word, a self is not fixed in isolation. It is formed in relation: each encounter, place, and question activates another surface of who I am.
APR 2025
Designing Confidence: A Visual Language for openpilot ↗
How an autonomous system earns trust through what it shows — a visual language study for openpilot.
JAN 2025
The Second Sex — Simone de Beauvoir ↗
Reading notes on becoming, otherness, and the selves we are assigned.
JAN 2023
UX Research Method: Cultural Probe ↗
Reaching the moments interviews can't — kits, prompts, and what they reveal.
DEC 2022
How to Write Interview Questions for the User ↗
Asking past politeness — scripts that surface what people actually do.
ONGOING
More on Medium ↗
Essays and notes on design, research, and code.
SAY HI
WRITEkellypear01@gmail.com