Designer & front-end engineer / Philadelphia, PA

Making a three-century-old university feel built this year.

I’m Kevin Schueller — a designer and front-end engineer at the University of Pennsylvania, building the sites, standards, and accessibility infrastructure behind one of the largest university web estates in the country.

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Selected work

Selected studies, 2024 to now.

Institutional work is mostly invisible by design. Here is what it actually took.

Also contributed Civil Rights & Title IX content migrationAnnenberg School for Communication redesign

01 / Flagship

Penn ISC — the front door to IT.

The front door to IT for an entire university — rebuilt from Drupal 7 to Drupal 10, and then taught to serve two audiences at once.

Client
Penn Information Systems & Computing
Role
Front-end & Drupal theme development
Stack
Drupal 10, Twig, custom upennisc theme
Live
isc.upenn.edu
Read the case study Visit isc.upenn.edu
The Penn Information Systems & Computing homepage — a large photographic hero, a resource directory, and featured news.
isc.upenn.edu—Drupal 10 · custom theme

100+

Members of Penn’s Web Community of Practice — programmed and hosted by me

160+

Penn domains covered by the tracking and accessibility scans I support

500

Penn sites whose ungovernable Google Analytics setup my analytics platform replaces

Practice

Design and engineering, in the same pair of hands.

Most of my work sits where the two overlap: a layout decision that is also a templating decision, an accessibility fix that is also a content strategy problem.

01

Engineering

  • Drupal 10 / Twig theming
  • Component libraries & paragraph types
  • HTML, CSS, modern JavaScript
  • Build tooling & performance
  • Astro, React, Vue

02

Design

  • Editorial layout & typography
  • Design systems
  • Prototyping in Figma
  • Motion & interaction
  • Print & identity

03

Governance

  • WCAG 2.2 AA
  • Accessibility testing & remediation
  • Consent & privacy (OneTrust)
  • Standards, documentation & training
  • Community-building at scale

A short version

I like problems where the right answer is the boring one, executed carefully.

I came to front-end engineering from design, which means I care about how a page looks and also who has to maintain it in three years. At Penn that balance is the whole job: the site has to serve tens of thousands of people, survive a decade of editors, and still pass an accessibility audit.

Before Penn, I did institutional web work at La Salle University and independent design and build for small organisations. Same instinct throughout — remove the guesswork, then make it beautiful.

  1. 2024 — Present University of Pennsylvania
  2. Before La Salle University
  3. Alongside Independent practice
The longer version