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.
Writing
All posts →- May 8, 2026A Game of Inches
- Apr 23, 2026The things you can't vibe-code
- Apr 17, 2026Skiing is Fun
- Apr 9, 2026Can Kiprun crack the US running market?
- Apr 2, 2026The West's No Good, Very Bad, Snow Year
- Mar 26, 2026National Parks by the Numbers
- Mar 19, 2026Japan House Makes You Want to Visit Japan (Without Asking You To)
- Mar 12, 2026Data Dive: The Outdoor Recreation Economy
- Feb 26, 2026Nike ACG: All Aboard the Hype Train
- Feb 20, 2026Satisfy, Currently Running, and the Fight Over Running's Aesthetic
Projects
data.hereandthere.club
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