Celine Nguyen

Software designer and writer from California. I write about literature, design, art & technology on my Substack newsletter, personal canon.

hello@celinenguyen.com

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I'm very excited about

Contemporary literature / Software's influence on culture / The handmade, handcoded web / Intersections between design process and writing process / Interdisciplinary endeavors / The joy of a good groupchat / Reading books, not feeds / Calligraphy / Twentieth-century history / The resurgence of physical crafts in a digital age

so feel free to talk to me about these things!

Lately

Designing at Watershed in London. Quoted in the New Yorker about literature and social media. Appeared in the Time to Say Goodbye podcast. One of the NBCC's Emerging Critics for 2025–26.

Previously

Designed at Notion . Computational writing residency at the Banff Centre . Studied design history at the V&A Museum/Royal College of Art . Spoke at AIGA’s Emerging Designers Symposium. Designed at Palantir , Artsy , Google . Studied computer science & design at Carnegie Mellon .