I turn doodles into demos to test within days

Almost twenty years in labs rapidly prototyping and shipping products that light people up, toys, apps, connected hardware, two venture-backed animation and storytelling companies. My broad ranging career as a creative technologist touches pixels, paint, clay, vinyl, code, sensors, motors, fabrication, customer development, community building, teaching, and more recently, supercharged with human-centered AI.

Physical toys taken from a drawing all the way to a store shelf, through sculpt, overseas tooling, paint, packaging and IP licensors

Mediums and tools trained to created in; Traditional, digital and fabrication

Young people taught to create, play and express themselves, from living rooms to classrooms to hackathons

01

Start curious 

Every prototype exists to answer one thing a team is stuck on. If we cannot write the question in a sentence, we don't start building yet. Unless it's a freeform play day, then anything goes.
Sometimes lightning comes from the unexpected.

02

Fastest Path

Cardboard beats CAD if cardboard answers the question.

We pick the method by what the test needs, not what medium we're most comfortable in.

03

Brutal Feedback

Adults are polite about a prototype.
Six year-olds show you the truth.

Small tests, often, and we hone in on what broke more than what impressed, until everything impresses. Or we quickly scrap it.

“Kyle is one of the most creative and inspirational people I know. His perspective on life is always incredibly raw and balanced. His unbelievable talents make him a true blessing for whoever gets to work and develop a relationship with him.”

Marc Nager
Managing Partner @ Howdy Partners | Former CEO of Startup Weekend

A three-year-old made an animated cartoon and showed it to their family. The output was a thing that existed and could be shared and relived over and over.

Seven-year-olds scored then published experiences around their favorite books for others to play back. 

Decades spent designing objects for hands: what survives being dropped, what a small hand can grip, what reads at two inches tall. Physical constraints are the good kind of constraint.

A digital experience that turns an open-ended build into a set of instructions to follow. If the screen makes the child do less with their hands, the screen is the wrong answer.