Owen Cole

I’m an interface designer and software maker at Frame.

I enjoy useful tools, thoughtful details, and things that move.

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Selected talks

Work

◈Frame

Designing a calmer workspace for independent teams, with a focus on navigation and everyday interactions.

NNorthstar

Led the design of collaboration features and built working prototypes with the engineering team.

↗Studio Common

Partnered with founders to shape early ideas into useful software.

Side projects

Making motion feel natural

Movement should explain what changed. This talk explores how timing, distance, and a little restraint can help an interface feel easier to follow.

Presentation notes · Owen Cole

From sketch to system

A design system starts with a few shared decisions. This workshop follows one component from an uncertain sketch to a useful, repeatable pattern.

Presentation notes · Owen Cole

Pocket Notes

A tiny notebook for thoughts that arrive at inconvenient times. Open it, write a line, get back to the day. A fictional side project exploring quick capture.

Presentation notes · Owen Cole