Karl Koch

Karl Koch

Design Engineer in London, He/Him

About

Design Engineer by day at DuckDuckGo and by night at Cosmic. Helping startups from time-to-time with 0 → 1 products. Part of the “Cracked Photoshop & MySpace” generation. Listener and creator of heavy music.

Side Projects

Ongoing

Working Sets is a minimal and simple workout tracker designed for people looking to build muscle and make progressive size gains.

Ongoing

Shrednotes is a minimal and simple skateboard session tracker designed for people looking to learn new tricks and improve their existing tricks.

Ongoing

A new platform to help Design Engineers learn, find their next role, hear from experts, and demonstrate their skills.

2023

A tool to upload images and files to your Cosmic Bucket. Also available for Figma.

2023

A converter to go from pixels to Tailwind classes and back.

2023

A basic bookmark storage and viewing tool for Raycast, built on top of Cosmic’s headless CMS.

2023

A basic Markdown editor that can use GPT under the hood to generate useful outlines, article expansion or basic generation.

2023
Arti

A native iOS, iPadOS and macOS app for interfacing with ChatGPT.

2022

Cosmic on-the-go.

2021

Convert with a tap.

2020

Building Figma plugins for myself and the community. If you're looking for unique and specific utility plugins for Figma, Plugins.run has you covered.

2019

Effortless PDF creation.

Writing

2023

A series of articles I've written.

Work Experience

2021 — Now
Remote

A complete redesign and rebuild of the best headless content management system out there.

2023 — Now
Remote

Designing for privacy.

2022 — 2023
London

Design Systems, DesignOps and, Product Designer for Investing.

2021 — 2022
London

Designing the future of long-term investing.

2020 — 2021
London

Product Designer and occasional SwiftUI developer.

2019 — 2020
London

Designing and building the frontend for corporate renewable energy purchasing.

2018 — 2019
London

UX Leadership and digital alignment across internal teams and external partners.

2016 — 2018
London

UX Design, occasional frontend code, and project management for healthcare.