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 emerges through the creation of tools for connection and publishing.

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