Kelin Carolyn Zhang is an independent software designer and educator who focuses on making “software with a soul. ” Her work spans product design, creative technology, interaction design, and teaching, with experience at established companies, design studios, and early-stage startups. She is currently a resident creative technologist at the School of Visual Arts’ MFA Interaction Design program, where she designs and prototypes AI products with clients, and teaches AI Software Design Studio at RISD.

Her projects include Poetry Camera, a camera that prints poems inspired by what it sees, and TRASH BABY, a playful image-mixing app created with Artbreeder and Angelo. She also built pomo. chat, a social Pomodoro app.

Previously, Zhang led design for Twitter Spaces as a staff product designer, taught interaction design at SVA, and designed political technology for the 2020 election. A former design lead and first design hire at Ueno, she has worked with clients including Apple, Dropbox, Google, Reuters, Sotheby’s, Uber, and Visa