Kyle Frost
Designer & writer.

I tell stories with content, code, and design. The best work I do sits where those meet. The way I see it, good design and good writing are the same job: making something clear enough that people care.

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A weekly newsletter on the outdoors and travel, read by brand leaders, outdoor media, and people across the industry.

Projects

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.”
— Wes Allen, Sunlight Sports

Work

  • PermitFlowLead Product Designer
    2024 — 2026
  • Product HuntLead Product Designer
    2021 — 2023
  • The Outbound CollectiveProduct Designer
    2018 — 2021
  • Borrowed & BlueSenior Product Designer
    2016 — 2017

Elsewhere