Kyle Ruane
Staff Product Designer at Duolingo
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Ruane is a Staff Product Designer with 13 years of experience crafting product and interface design, branding, and design systems, currently shaping experiences at Duolingo from Pittsburgh. He combines product thinking with hands-on front-end development and illustration, enabling smooth handoffs between design and engineering and a track record of shipping polished e-commerce and consumer-facing interfaces. A seasoned freelancer and former co‑founder, Kyle brings entrepreneurial curiosity and pragmatic UX solutions honed across startups and retail platforms like Cotton Bureau and Plain. He also contributes to open-source front-end projects, focusing on UI polish and iconography, which underscores his attention to visual detail beyond typical product design work.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA Commercial Art, BA Commercial Art at Millersville University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (6)
css10
user-interface10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
interface-design10
html8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cdevroe/unmark
Feb 2014 - Jan 2020
An open source to do app for bookmarks.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:97 commits, 33 pushes, 19 branches in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily focused on UI and style updates, including new icon additions and general enhancements to the application's appearance. The commits show changes to CSS files, and they are associated with adding new icons. The user also appears to be involved in merging code branches. The user also made updates to the welcome screen and the sign-in page by incorporating new styles.
bookmarks-managerto-do-appcssphpjavascript
kyleruane/kyleruane.github.io
Jun 2016 - Oct 2020
Contributions:104 pushes, 6 branches, 1 tag in 4 years 4 months
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