About
I'm Kyle! With over a decade of design experience spanning digital applications to architecture, I specialize in crafting elegant, user-centric solutions for complex problems. I thrive in collaborative environments creating systems and processes to work efficiently and effectively as a team.
In my free time I enjoy soccer, bike packing, spending time with my young family, and trying to escape the ever-present glowing screens by heading outside.
Though I've been working for a while, here's a quick glance at the last few years.
How I work
- Design review cadence: I run regular design critiques to align on craft and direction, and use async feedback loops so distributed teams stay in sync.
- Collaboration model: I partner closely with PM and engineering from discovery through launch—sharing Figma early, documenting decisions, and aligning on tradeoffs.
- Mentoring & onboarding: I create design documentation and component libraries that help new designers ramp quickly and maintain consistency across the product.
- Raising team quality: At Acelab I advocated for and built a design system that reduced handoff friction and scaled design quality across the application.
Tools
What people say
“You have a knack for seeing to the core of a problem and addressing it head on. You've been an ally for the eng team!”
“You seamlessly flex from creative, big picture thinking to in-the-weeds logic”
“I could not ask for a better design partner than Kyle. It is a joy to work with someone who supports his peers, but isn't afraid to challenge design solutions”
“You have this amazing ability to take an exorbitant amount of information and magically produce totally streamlined solutions!”
Connect
Reach me at kyle.boyd@gmail.com