Kyle Frost

I'm a product designer, writer, and tinkerer.

I'm currently leading product design at PermitFlow, where we're using AI to automate the complex system of construction permitting in North America.

My newsletter Here & There  covers deeply researched topics in travel, adventure, and outdoor culture.

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The collapse of roles

AI is not just accelerating work but fundamentally reshaping who does it, how they do it, and what it means to belong on a team.

I used AI to fix my Chrome bookmarks

I built a smarter bookmark tool that auto-sorts links using GPT-4 — no tags, no folders, just one click.

Sometimes It's the Small Stuff

A reminder that design isn’t always about big launches. It’s about small, smart steps that actually work.

These landscapes aren't real.

An exploration in generative AI photography and what it means for the the industry

Twitter's blue checkmark and the power of mental models

Let's break down the designer-y explanation for why the changing how the blue check works feels so weird and confusing.

The problems with Outside's "Outerverse"

Outside Interactive dips into the world of web3 with a new initiative called Outside.io.

Web3 + the outdoors – it's not all bad but sometimes it feels gross.

I stumbled across an outdoors-focused NFT collection. I'm feeling conflicted.

How I use ChatGPT to save time and effort writing changelogs

An AI-powered changelog workflow helps our small team stay in sync without adding tools, meetings, or overhead.