Hi, I'm Kyle.

Permitflow

2024 – Now

Product Hunt

2021 – 2023

The Outbound Collective

2017 – 2021

Borrowed & Blue

2016 – 2017

SmartShoot

2014 – 2016

Tinkering

I love building things, exploring new ideas, and using side projects as a way to learn new skills and tools (a lot of AI these days) . A few things I've make recently:

Here & There

A newsletter covering outdoor and travel culture

Another Puffy Jacket

Some gear you need, some gear you don't.

PackTrak

An app for tracking hiking and backpacking pack lists

Sift

A chrome extension that auto-categorizes your bookmarks

Work

A few snapshots of things I've worked on. My role as an IC designer tends to be quite fluid, moving between product, design, and code.

PermitFlow

AI-powered construction permitting and municipal intelligence

My work at PermitFlow focuses on AI-first product and design challenges in municipal research, 'human in the loop' workflows, and data management. We're working on experiences that bring clarity to municipal information, requirements, and allow us to effectively visualize interconnected requirement dependencies.

Design
Product
AI

PackTrak

Simple pack list management

I built PackTrak soup-to-nuts as a proof of concept around how AI coding tools can enable designers to ship production code (or complete web apps). It comes with all the bells and whistles like grouping, categorization, shared gear across lists and public sharing. Tech stack is Next.js, Supabase, Vercel, and Loops.

Design
Full-Stack
AI

Product Hunt

The best new products in tech

I led a cross-functional team focused on UGC and growth, driving collaboration across design, product, engineering, and content. Redesigning hubs and restructuring search made the experience more intuitive and drove a 32% lift in click-throughs. Alongside this, I developed an SEO strategy and redesigned category and topic pages for expanded reach, which brought in a significant increase in organic visitors to Product Hunt.

Design
SEO

Borrowed & Blue

A data-driven approach to wedding-planning

At B&B I redesigned and re-architected the website, introducing a new design system that simplified the front-end and improved performance. This work led to a 35% lift in page views and a 25% increase in time on site through a reimagined photo browsing experience. It also set the stage for a broader shift from regional to geo-located search, bringing the product closer to how customers actually explored content.

Design
Front-end
SEO

The Outbound Collective

Helping millions of people find adventure and get outside

I led design and product across web and mobile, helping grow the community from the ground up to 700k registered users. We balanced fast iteration with long-term vision, and were twice featured in the App Store. I also built out our programmatic SEO strategy from scratch, which drove millions of monthly pageviews, and contributed to front-end development.

Design
SEO
Front-end
Mobile

Sift

A chrome extension to auto-categorize your bookmarks

I got frustrated with my Chrome bookmarks so I built a bookmark extension that auto-categorizes websites based on your existing bookmark tree. It uses an OpenAI api key to read the content on the page, evaluate, and then match the bookmark to an appropriate folder.

Design
Full-stack
AI