Kyle Frost
Designer, writer, builder.
I tell stories with content, code, and design. Brand editorial at AllTrails and insights on the outdoors at Here & There.
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A weekly newsletter on the outdoors and travel, read by brand leaders, outdoor media, and people across the industry.
Writing
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How will prioritizing citizens change your river lottery odds?Oct 6, 2026
Nobody cares about Satisfy’s drop-of-the-weekSep 30, 2026
The Tour du Mont Blanc goes “reservation-only”Sep 24, 2026
I built a home for outdoor recreation dataSep 17, 2026
Why does the USDA want to remove the Roadless Rule?Sep 9, 2026
Projects
publiclandsdata.com
Visualizing outdoor recreation economic data and national park visitation stats.
Indie Outdoors
A reading room for independent outdoor publishing.
PackTrak
Full-stack app for managing hiking gear lists
Sift
Chrome extension that uses AI to automatically organize bookmarks
Another Puffy Jacket
Retro directory of outdoor gear and news with a nostalgic 90s aesthetic. The web used to be more fun.
PM Debate
Multi-agent AI debate tool for evaluating product requirements documents
About
I’m a full-stack product design leader. I’ve spent my career at startups across a range of industries (weddings, outdoor communities, B2B permitting), and my work has always lived at the intersection of design, code, and product.
Some days I’m deep in Figma pushing pixels and refining interaction details. Other days I’m building AI workflows to recap product updates, sketching a programmatic SEO strategy, writing a PRD, prototyping directly in production, or opening a pull request to fix a bug that’s been bothering me. I like understanding how things work under the hood, and if something really needs to ship, I’m happy to help make it happen.
AI
I was already pretty technical (for a designer) before LLMs. I’m comfortable using git, writing front-end code, talking to engineers about databases and tradeoffs. I use LLMs to prototype features in production codebases with dummy data, fix bugs, stress-test PRDs for edge cases, and turn rough stream-of-thought notes into structured documents. I’m constantly tinkering with workflows and building side projects to keep up with how fast it’s all moving.
Writing
Outside of product work, I publish Here & There, a weekly newsletter about outdoor and travel culture I’ve been writing for the last six years. It covers industry trends, conservation, the business side of the outdoors, and whatever else I find interesting. It’s read by brand leaders, outdoor media, and people across the industry.
“Kyle is one of the most adept and insightful voices in outdoor right now. He has a remarkable ability to make the intricacies of the current outdoor industry compelling, understandable, and entertaining.”
Work
- PermitFlowLead Product Designer2024 — 2026
- Product HuntLead Product Designer2021 — 2023
- The Outbound CollectiveProduct Designer2018 — 2021
- Borrowed & BlueSenior Product Designer2016 — 2017
Elsewhere
- Here & Therehereandthere.club
- Instagram@kylefrost
- Threads@kylefrost
- LinkedIn/in/kylefrost
- Emailkyle@kylefrost.com