✦ meet your trusted design partner

kate
hong
designs

a designer who loves

Previously @ Weee!, Acadium,
and a student at UC San Diego.
Interested in product design & design consultant roles.

◍ Selected Work

Research-led, content-first, visually deliberate. Each one started with a problem worth caring about.

◌ Playground

Side quests, doodles, and tools I’ve built for fun. Scroll to unfurl — click anything that catches your eye.

  • Watercolor painting of abstract colorful shapes
  • Oil still life with wine bottle, apple, white flower in a teal pitcher
  • Charcoal sketches of horses, dogs, and hands
  • Pencil drawing of a dense city of high-rise buildings
  • Charcoal architectural sketch with strong shadows
  • Colored pencil drawing of compact mirrors with reflected faces
  • Mixed media drawing of a dress draped over an ornate chair
  • Pastel drawing of grey drapery against an orange background
  • Watercolor of a stone bridge over blue water
  • Gouache painting of a figure with umbrella on a rainy night street
  • Surreal painting of a child blowing bubbles containing cityscapes
  • Acrylic still life of bottles and a brass instrument
  • Ink and watercolor of a downtown street with a vintage Stadium Theatre marquee

◐ About

I’m a UX & visual designer who loves intuitive experiences, strategic storytelling, and people. My work lives where research, content, and visual design meet — because none of them work without the others.

Outside the brief: doodles, daydreams, and a soft spot for problems that feel impossible until you talk to the person living them.

More about me