David Cole

Until my son arrived in December, I was a product lead at Disrupto in New York, where I designed and coded Member.ly.

In my spare time, I run a boutique online publication design studio called Sleepover with my friends Tag Savage and Joe Bernardi. My personal favorite projects were Bygone Bureau, Put This On, Lapham's Quarterly, and PRI. Under the Sleepover banner, I wrote a popular experimental post called Metagames and Containers.

Prior to Sleepover, my work focus was interaction design at a variety of startups. Among my favorite projects are Fluther, EtherPad, and Disqus.

Design might be my trade, but I'm fond of many adjacent fields. I enjoy teaching, writing, illustrating, and much more. I suppose you could say I'm more ✳–shaped than T–shaped.

I write about iPhone and iPad games with Nick Martens over at On Tap. I'm designing a survival board game about zoo animals that's been called a blend of Mario Party and Dungeons and Dragons. Recently Frank Chimero and I discussed cartoons and forked realities. Paul Ford once called my OmniGraffle work "seriously edifying". I interviewed an autistic man who designs planets in his spare time. When I lived in San Francisco my wife and I kept bees and sold honey. I accidentally inspired a small subculture of Pokémon fans to tweet in character.

If you'd like to get in touch, you can find me on Tumblr, Twitter or send me an email.