Karalyn Thayer
Freelance Designer at Karalyn Ann Designs
Buxton, Maine, United States
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Top SchoolKaralyn Thayer is a Product Designer and freelance creative based in Buxton, Maine, with six years of focused UX and product design experience and a broader design career dating back to print and marketing work. She combines hands-on skills in wireframing, prototyping, usability testing, illustration, and frontend HTML/CSS with mastery of tools like Figma and the Adobe suite to deliver both digital products and printed materials. As a former Creative Director and interim Product Designer, she has led cross-functional projects, maintained design systems, and overseen developer handoffs while supporting growth-minded teams. Karalyn is also an experienced instructor and mentor—having supported 500+ students at Skillcrush—so she brings clear communication and teaching-oriented rigor to client engagements. Outside client work she tinkers with advanced electronic device design for the DIY/maker community, blending product engineering curiosity with user-centered design practice.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) New Media, Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) New Media at Maine College of Art & DesignUX Design, UX Design at Noble Work FoundationWeb Page Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design, Web Page Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design at Southern Maine Community CollegeHigh School, High School at Carver Middle/High School
Github Skills (15)
octoprint10
cnc10
sd-card10
zebra10
zpl10
gcode9
portable9
3d-printer9
printer9
bank8
3d-printing8
firmware7
cryptocurrency5
blockchain4
ethereum4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
KRALYN/Ultimate_Powerbank_V3_Code
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
This the the code for the ultimate power bank V3
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 25 days
ethereumblockchaincryptocurrencypowerbank
KRALYN/PositronV3
May 2022 - Jul 2022
A upside-down, fast, portable, and compact 3D printer
Contributions:2 releases, 22 commits, 6 PRs in 2 months
compactzploctoprintsd-card3d-printer
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