About

Thomas Park

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I’m a digital product designer who’s passionate about educational technology. My current work is at Codepip, a platform of educational games like Flexbox Froggy and Grid Garden. I previously designed learning systems at Drexel University’s College of Computing and Informatics, Mozilla Foundation, and the Center for Talented Youth.

In my spare time, I maintain open source projects like Bootswatch, collect birds in Merlin, and play chess and golf.

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Connect

Connect with me on LinkedIn, GitHub, Twitter, or by email at [email protected].

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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

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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

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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

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