Hi, I'm Kyle a product designer with a love for solving problems through human centered design and technology.
Snapshots
Here's some snapshots of designs I'm currently working on.
SEP 2023 - PRESENT
Caesars Sportsbook
Senior Product Designer
Leading product (ux/ui) design efforts at Caesars Sportsbook, with a focus on optimizing live sports betting, cash-out functionality, and search features to enhance user engagement, satisfaction, and conversion rates. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including product managers, developers, and stakeholders, to align design strategies with business goals and user-centric needs, delivering seamless, high-impact digital experiences.
AUG 2022 - AUG 2023
Adim Inc.
Lead Product Designer
Played a pivotal role in designing an innovative creator-focused product enabling the development of intellectual property such as characters for television, movies, books, games, and other media. Specialized in crafting user-centric design solutions to empower creators, streamline workflows, and drive engagement in content creation tools.
NOV 2021 - JUL 2022
Virtually Human Studio (ZED Run)
Senior Product Designer
Product Designer for the NFT Ecosystem of Zed Run, a provably fair digital horse racing game built on blockchain technology. Designed innovative NFT experiences to engage users throughout their journey in the game, enhancing their interactions and driving long-term player engagement.
Collaborated with experts in game design, economy balancing, and blockchain integration to develop key features like horse breeding, the central flywheel powering the in-game racing economy. Additionally, played a significant role as a contributor to the design system, ensuring consistency and scalability across all product touchpoints. Focused on creating sustainable systems that align game mechanicswith user behavior, leveraging data-driven insights to optimize engagement and retention.
DEC 2019 - NOV 2021
DraftKings
Senior Product Designer
Senior Product Designer specializing in connective design areas as part of the Platform Design Team, creating innovative solutions for the financial aspects of the business. Designed and optimized critical workflows such as deposit, withdrawal, tax compliance, and account management, ensuring seamless user experiences across these key functionalities.
Played a pivotal role as a contributor to the design system, driving consistency, scalability, and efficiency across all product touchpoints.
SEP 2017 - NOV 2019
RadioPublic
Lead Product Designer
Lead Product Designer at RadioPublic, a technology company and public benefit corporation dedicated to creating exceptional products and tools to support its mission of connecting listeners with great podcasts. Focused on designing user-friendly iOS, Android, and web apps that enhanced the podcast listening experience across platforms.
Additionally, led the design of a podcast website builder, enabling podcasters to leverage their XML/RSS feeds to automatically generate professional, feature-rich websites. This tool empowered podcasters to market themselves to new audiences with ease, offering advanced functionality typically reserved for custom-built sites while streamlining the launch process using their feed URL. Delivered impactful, scalable solutions that bridged technology and user needs in the podcasting space.
MAR 2015 - AUG 2017
EF Education First
UX / UI Designer
Lead UX/UI Designer for an au pair matching service, creating intuitive software to connect families with overseas au pairs. Spearheaded efforts to redesign the entire software suite, including accounts, matching, and application workflows, while contributing to the development and refinement of design systems to ensure scalability and consistency.
Additionally served as Product Owner for global marketing websites, collaborating with internal and external teams to design, build, and launch impactful web experiences that supported international audiences and drove business growth. Focused on delivering user-centered solutions that streamlined processes and enhanced engagement across platforms.
AUG 2012 - MAR 2015
Hill Holliday
UX Architect, Interface Designer
Strategy, architecting, designing and prototyping innovative digital executions for clients across wide array of verticals including apparel, automotive, financial, food / beverage and pharmaceutical for vast array of digital mediums including web and mobile.
Working tightly with development in an agile environment, rapidly iterating and executing high quality deliverables.
JUN 2009 - AUG 2012
Pangea Media / SnapApp
Product Designer, UX / UI
Lead a product focused group in the ideation, design, branding and implementation of a web-saas product while designing marketing site and materials to support a startup lead-generation platform. Lead other designers in creation of assets for product and marketing materials.
Lead consulting service, designing for web apps using the platform for clients from NY Times to Oprah.
SINCE FOREVER
Freelance
Designer
Design consultation architecting, designing and prototyping innovative digital executions for clients across wide array of verticals typically in startup to prototype phase for the vast array of digital and print mediums.
BRANDS I'VE WORKED WITH
Bank of America. Dunkin Donuts. Merrell. Liberty Mutual. Necco. John Hancock. IdeaPaint. Chilis. Novartis. MLB. The Boston Police Foundation.
WHO I'M INTERESTED IN WORKING WITH
Strava. Twitter. The Copenhagen Wheel. VR. Architects. City Planning. The US Government. Startups. Podcasters. VR. Dog Shelters. Ninja Turtles. Fans of 80's comedy cinema.
Let's Connect.
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