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

My practice centers on perception, environment, interaction, and interface. It takes design and engineering, and often leads to creating tools for publishing and 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 writing practices.

Last summer I worked on Assemblage, a publishing platform assembling pages of work contextually around visitors using natural language. I’m currently collaborating with an author on the design of a series of books, and engineering an interactive companion.

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 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

Features

Speaking

2018
Public Parks and Publishing Tools at MozFest
London, UK
2018
Tempo and Publishing at The Internet Archive
San Francisco, CA
2018
Decentralized Publishing Workshop at Processing Day
Los Angeles, CA
2018
Why Publishing? at Evening Class
London, UK