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Ky designs and builds for the web

Ky Decker is a design engineer who likes playing piano and writing CSS. Currently living in NYC with .

Projects

  • Sheets

    music composition

    Solo piano arrangements, engraved using LilyPond.

    Visit
    The word "Sheets" in Times New Roman beneath a pink lotus flower.

  • Astro Photo Grid

    site template

    A minimal, single-page photo gallery for Astro.

    View on GitHub
    A horizontal masonry grid of nature photos on a black background.

  • Hypertext TV

    explorable

    Daily programming for the handmade web, airing now.

    Tune in
    The Hypertext TV logo, HTTV for short.

  • windy day

    handmade web

    A small soundscape.

    Listen
    A plain HTML table on a cream colored background featuring rows of audio controls and small animated GIFs.

  • Embrace friction

    writing

    On letterpress, tech, and the power of going slow.

    Read more
    A letterpress workstation showing a large wooden case full of metal type.

  • Composed

    procedural art

    Generative staff paper for non-linear time.

    Visit
    Procedurally generated staff paper, angled, askew.

  • Design Is

    poetic web

    How do you define design?

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    Design is the deliberate creation of light for others.

  • Guestbook

    social web

    A guestbook for ky.fyi.

    Visit and sign
    A collection of hand-drawn postcards. The middle one has a flower drawn with a green highlighter.

  • HYPERSENSITIVE

    procedural art

    A looping, generative meditation on overwhelm, autism, and synesthesia.

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    Vibrant blocks of text obscure the words, 'It's all going to be okay.'

  • Lissajous Curve SVG Generator

    tool

    Create and export Lissajous Curves in SVG.

    Visit
    An orange Lissajous curve on a dark gray grid.

  • Namesake

    nonprofit

    Web app to aid with the legal name and gender marker change process in the U.S.

    Visit and donate
    A purple background with a snail on a flower. "Your name is yours to change."

  • Mapping where districts start and end

    case study

    Helping BetaNYC map and query New York City's various civic boundaries.

    Read more
    A low-angle shot of the Manhattan Municipal Building.

  • Building Commonplace

    case study

    What goes into building a design system for healthcare?

    Read more
    A collection of Commonplace components represented in Figma and in code.

  • Design outside the computer

    writing

    Your digital UI can come from the physical world.

    Read more
    Two stamps sit beside small rectangular piece of cream-color card stock. There is a red stamp on the paper with a hand holding a match alight.

  • Creating a catalogue of gender-swapped song covers

    case study

    The making of Genderswap.fm, using SvelteKit, Supabase, and the Spotify Web API.

    Read more
    A collection of original and cover album art for different songs.

  • Genderswap.fm

    archive

    Cataloguing gender-reversal in cover songs.

    Explore the archive
    An interface showing pairs of albums side-by-side, each one a cover.

  • NYC Boundaries Map

    open data

    A map of New York City's various civic boundaries.

    Explore boundaries
    An interface displays two overlapping polygons on a map of New York City.

  • America, My Face Is Saying Everything That You Need to Know

    useless web

    Dot com.

    Visit
    Monique Heart on RuPaul's Drag Race makes a shocked expression.

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