Kyle
@kylejohnston.bsky.social
👋 Product Design @ Etsy. People think I use colors and fonts to make things pretty Creative journal: https://kyleio.com
New post for the * * dog days of summer * * July learning log: building a new app, finished a good book, and watched a great talk on creativity three times. And as always, new visual inspiration from my swipe file. kyleio.com/p/learning-l...
Learning Log, July 2026 · · K:IO
Where my attention flowed in July 2026
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New post · · · June learning log: completed a big trip and a bigger hike, read three great books. And as always, new visual inspiration from my swipe file · · · kyleio.com/p/learning-l...
Learning Log, June 2026 · · K:IO
Where my attention flowed in June 2026
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I added 30 new jobs for designers, copywriters, and PMs who want to work on health, climate, education, and public services to the Hard Problems job board today: www.hardproblems.com/jobs
Hard Problems
A not-for-profit helping designers to work on the hard problems that matter in the world.
hardproblems.com
Sick of AI, social media and horrible tech? Celebrate the good bits of the internet with THE TINY AWARDS 2026! The Tiny Awards celebrate the small, non-commercial, fun, silly, poetic, frivolous web - nominate your favourite site from the past year here, and please tell the world: tinyawards.net
Amazing idea: crankgpt.com – like a steampunk version of the matrix ~ via Robin Sloan's pop-up newsletter, www.robinsloan.com/winter-garde...
CrankGPT — Local Human-powered AI
A human-powered, fully local, fully private AI solution.
crankgpt.com
New post ~ ~ April learning log: hit a major running goal, made it through a busy, busy month at work, and read two great books. And as always, new visual inspiration from my swipe file. kyleio.com/p/learning-l...
Learning Log, April 2026 · · K:IO
Where my attention flowed in April 2026
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Should you stay or should you go? I wrote a little post about how the job description for designers is changing and what you can about it. mikeindustries.com/blog/archive...
Tips for Designers on Making it Through 2026 to the Other Side » Mike Industries
If you’re in tech and you don’t have at least a little career anxiety right now, you are either overly confident or you aren’t paying attention. Engineers are jittery. PMs are jittery. Designers and R...
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To all the #UX peeps looking to figure out a path forward through a time of deep career ambiguity: This is a thread of five things I'm doing for senior and staff designers in the next few months. All are online. Some are free, some are paid.
@ftrain.bsky.social 👋 hey, in the last two episodes of the podcast, the intro music plays again about halfway through. This week, it starts at 14:53.
Wrote a TIL* on Claude.md files. Mostly documenting it for future me, but thought others might find it useful: kyleio.com/p/til-claude... *really, it's more of a 'this weekend I wrapped my head around', but: TWIWMHA… yikes).
CLAUDE.md best practices · · K:IO
Documenting my evolving understanding of CLAUDE.md files
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New post—February learning log: launched an ambient drone generator and a 2000's-era blog archive. Read two great sci-fi-ish books. And as always, new visual inspiration from my swipe file. kyleio.com/p/learning-l...
Learning Log, February 2026 · · K:IO
Where my attention flowed in February 2026
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Launched a project I've been crafting since January. Massive Bloom is a browser-based tool for creating evolving, atmospheric drone sounds and textures. Every composition generates a unique URL you can share or save. Turn it on and listen to it evolve: massivebloomsound.com?p=covers-lit...
Massive Bloom ¦ Ambient drone generator
Massive Bloom is a browser-based instrument for creating evolving, atmospheric drone sounds and textures
massivebloomsound.com
Stumbled on a classic version of liquid glass on an old apple domain… clean up the border radii and bring it back, tbh #designsky
New post—January learning log: building an ambient drone generator inspired by Fred again, refining my workflows for @mikker.dev's LeaderKey app, and visual inspiration from my swipe file. kyleio.com/p/learning-l...
Learning Log, January 2026 · · K:IO
Where my attention flowed in January 2026
kyleio.com
Eno on starting without knowing where you're going www.instagram.com/reel/DLSgQUT... via bsky.app/profile/unde...
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Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
In our first episode of the new year, Jarrett is joined by @ghostlyint.bsky.social founder Sam Valenti IV to talk about how music and design shape culture. 🎧 Listen to the conversation: scratchingthesurface.fm/280-sam-vale...
New post – December learning log: A family celebration that started with the Titanic and ended in a castle, building tiny but useful tools, reading, and collecting visual inspiration. kyleio.com/p/learning-l...
Learning Log, December 2025 · · K:IO
Where my attention flowed in December 2025.
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I've been busy making just-for-me projects and wrote about a few of my favorites kyleio.com/p/tools-i-us...
Tools I use every day—that I made · · K:IO
I've been busy making tools just for me, and it feels good.
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New project! When you need a break from doomscrolling, scroll cats: endlessmewscroller.pages.dev
Endless Mew Scroller 😸
When you need a break from doomscrolling, scroll cats!
endlessmewscroller.pages.dev
Inspired by RSS readers like Hindsight, created a automated daily email digest of the RSS feeds I follow, all powered by GitHub Actions github.com/kylejohnston... This was my first test of Claude Code superpowers by @s.ly – seriously impressive!
I LEARNED THE ANSWER TO THIS Chris's Steakhouse was a New Orleans landmark Chris Matulich periodically got bored, sold it, waited for the new owner to fail, and bought it back cheap The sale conditions: Can't move it, can't change the name He did this six times Then he sold it to Ruth Fertel
garf's favorite daughter@amygarf.bsky.social · 2y agowhat did ruth mean when she said her steakhouse was "chris"
Someone at work had a great prompt to share the earliest example of your design work you can find. I learned the Wayback Machine supports Flash, so I was able to see one of my first portfolio sites from 2002 which included an ad I designed as a student
Wrote a review of a great new book, Creative Intelligence, by @brilliantcrank.bsky.social tl;dr - buy it, you won't regret it! kyleio.com/p/creative-i... #designsky
Stop drawing vases with AI · · K:IO
A review of Creative Intelligence, Greg Storey's book on thinking with AI
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Wrote a post on how Liquid Glass in iOS 26 could be improved by borrowing design cues public bathrooms. #designsky kyleio.com/p/public-bat...
Kyle Johnston's creative journal
A collection of things I've made, written, and that spark my curiosity
kyleio.com
I scored 12/21 on e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.
Email is Easy
Everyone knows what an email address is, right?
e-mail.wtf