About

Peter Cho is an Oakland-based design leader and practitioner. He is the founder and creator of YDays, a site for creative drawing challenges with friends and teammates. Previously, he has worked as Head of Design at Pocket, a subsidiary of Mozilla, as a design lead at Medium, focusing on creator tools, monetization, and content efforts, as the UX lead on the Google ATAP team for Project Ara, and as VP of Design at Inkling, creating digital publishing and content delivery tools for publishers and corporations.

His expertise ranges from product design, UX, UI, user research, and prototyping, to creative coding, information design, motion design, typography, and type design.

Cho holds a Master of Science degree from the MIT Media Lab and a MFA from UCLA Design Media Arts. He has received honors for his work from Ars Electronica, Tokyo Type Directors Club, New York Art Directors Club, ID Magazine, and Print Magazine. His work has been shown at the Telic Gallery, Ginza Graphic Gallery, Ars Electronica, Art Sonje, Seoul Arts Center, the Art Directors Club, and Cooper Union.

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Writing on design, culture, technology, and media art


Teaching: Design courses and workshops