Thomas Park
I’m a UX designer and developer based in Philly who loves creating tools to help people learn. I’m the creator of Codepip, a platform for coding games including Flexbox Froggy and Grid Garden. I also maintain open source projects like Bootswatch.
I was previously a human-computer interaction (HCI) researcher at Drexel University’s College of Computing and Informatics, working with Andrea Forte in the openHTML group at the ExCITe Center.
I’ve also spent time at the Mozilla Foundation adding educational features to a code editor, the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine building software for the CP3 Study, and the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth designing online courses like Cryptology: Math and Codes.
Connect
Connect with me on LinkedIn, GitHub, Twitter, or by email at [email protected].
Press
Anchoreum: A New Game for Learning Anchor Positioning
CSS-Tricks, 2024
This Chrome Extension Lets You Skip the Scary Parts of Disney Movies
Mashable, 2020
Thomas Park Helps Coders Master Flexbox Layout with a Cute Positioning Game
net Magazine, 2016
Snowball: A Tool for Storytelling on the Web
jQuery Blog, 2015
Check Out Every Apple Store Ever Opened, in Order
Time Magazine, 2011
Tutorials
In addition to posts about development, design, and research on my blog, I’ve published articles in other corners of the web:
Let’s Make a CSS Coding Game
Gamasutra, 2021
Recreating Game Elements for the Web: The Among Us Card Swipe
CSS-Tricks, 2021
Customizing Bootstrap
Smashing Magazine, 2013
Research
Understanding Learning Curves and Trajectories in CSS Layout
ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), 2019
Meen Chul Kim, Thomas Park, Ruixue Lu, & Andrea Forte
Reading Hierarchies in Code: Assessment of a Basic Computational Skill
ACM SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE), 2016
Thomas Park, Meen Chul Kim, Sukrit Chhabra, Brian Lee, & Andrea Forte
An Analysis of HTML and CSS Syntax Errors in a Web Development Course
ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE), 2015
Thomas Park, Brian Dorn, & Andrea Forte
Learning Web Development: Challenges at an Earlier Stage of Computing Education
ACM International Computing Education Research Conference (ICER), 2011
Thomas Park & Susan Wiedenbeck