Los Angeles, Calif.
contact@jon-kyle.com

Designer, engineer, and founder. My work centers on culture, publishing, and emerging technologies. Interaction, interface, perception, and environment. This focus centers on the creation of tools for connection.

I was the founding design engineer at Cargo Collective, a personal publishing platform for creative work. I was then Co-founder and Head of Product at Mirror, a long-form publishing platform enabling new ways of funding and sustaining long-form writing practice.

I'm currently working on the early stages of Assemblage, a publishing platform assembling pages of work contextually around visitors using natural language. Say hello if you have interest in early funding.

Professionally
  • 2025—Now
    Assemblage (Founder)

    Conversational publishing platform

  • 2021—2024
    Mirror (Co-founder, Head of Product)

    Long-form publishing platform

  • 2009—2017
    Cargo Collective (Founding Design Engineer)

    Personal publishing platform

  • 2009—Now
    Sierran Systems (Founder)

    Ongoing studio practice

    Ongoing studio practice for commissioned works, including projects for 12:01, a24, Are.na, Bloomberg Business Week, Dublab, Es Devlin, Google Arts & Culture, Hassan Rahim, LOT2046, Mountain Hardware, Nicholas Alan Cope, Osk Studio, Outpost, Redbull Music Academy, UCLA Architecture and Urban Design, Warp Records, and more.

Collaborations
  • 2024
    Are.na (Design Engineer)

    Editorial surface for the visual research tool

  • 2021—2023

    Digital product design studio

  • 2013—Now
    Folder Studio (Design Engineer)

    Los Angeles based design studio

Projects
  • 2022—Now

    Publication on movement, perception and environment

  • 2018—Now

    Your bookmarks, with a rhythm

  • 2016—2019

    Ultralight peer-to-peer publishing tools

  • 2017—2019
    Peer-to-Peer Web

    Workshops on decentralized publishing

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Features
Speaking
  • 2018
    Public Parks and Publishing Tools at MozFest

    London, UK

  • 2018
    Tempo and Publishing at The Internet Archive

    San Fransisco, CA

    Tempo and Publishing at The Internet Archive
  • 2018
    Decentralized Publishing Workshop at Processing Day

    Los Angeles, CA

  • 2018
    Why Publishing? at Evening Class

    London, UK

2025