07/12/2018
Reflections on a ten-day course in Transition Design at Schumacher College in the UK.
Featured Articles
Over the years I’ve written articles for The Atlantic, The New York Times, Salon.com, and the ACM, among others. Here are a few selected clips.
Medium
03/14/2018
Recapping a workshop on the future of design education at the 2018 IxDA Education Summit in Lyon, France.
Medium
12/16/2017
What does it mean to do “meaningful” work? According to a recent MIT study, most of us find meaning in our professional lives in highly individual and idiosyncratic ways: one person’s tedium is another’s labor of love.
Publications
Other articles
Communications of the ACM
11/01/2017
Amid growing outcry over controversial online videos, tech firms grapple with how best to police online advertising.
Communications of the ACM
01/01/2017
Researchers are discovering surprising new risks across the fast-growing IoT.
Medium
11/15/2016
Contemporary UX rhetoric is awash in talk of Lean and Agile methods, heroic tales of teams “failing fast,” and Fast Company-style paeans to designers as disruptors of hidebound industries. It is, for the most part, a rhetoric of doing. But what value might we find in not doing?
Medium
10/18/2016
Etsy has a big mission: to reimagine commerce in ways that build a more fulfilling and lasting world. That mission is accomplished in small steps; each change we make to the website or apps helps us build toward that goal. But how do we know if we’re building in the right direction?
Medium
10/02/2016
Thoughts on going back to school at CMU’s new low-residency doctoral program in transition design.
Communications of the ACM
11/01/2015
04/16/2015
Nautilus
02/12/2015
Communications of the ACM
07/15/2014
Salon
06/29/2014
The Atlantic
05/22/2014
Communications of the ACM
10/13/2013
Communications of the ACM
08/22/2013
05/16/2013
https://alexwright.com/articles/proving-grounds/
Communications of the ACM
02/24/2013
The New York Times
07/05/2012
Communications of the ACM
05/21/2012
Communications of the ACM
02/25/2012
01/19/2012
Communications of the ACM
11/27/2011
Communications of the ACM
10/05/2011
Communications of the ACM
07/15/2011
Communications of the ACM
05/08/2011
Communications of the ACM
01/01/2011
The New York Times
12/27/2010
The New York Times
12/27/2010
Communications of the ACM
10/30/2010
Communications of the ACM
04/01/2010
Interactions
02/15/2010
The New York Times
01/19/2010
Communications of the ACM (Jan 2010)
01/09/2010
Interactions
12/23/2009
Communications of the ACM
12/23/2009
The Wilson Quarterly
10/13/2009
Interactions
10/12/2009
Communications of the ACM
09/16/2009
The New York Times
08/24/2009
Interactions
06/18/2009
Communications of the ACM
04/17/2009
The New York Times
02/23/2009
The New York Times
02/23/2009
Communications of the ACM
02/18/2009
Communications of the ACM
01/22/2009
Communications of the ACM
10/21/2008
The New York Times
06/17/2008
The New York Times
06/17/2008
Interactions
02/10/2008
The New York Times
12/02/2007
Boxes and Arrows
09/20/2007
The Believer
11/30/2006
The Believer
11/27/2006
Christian Science Monitor
01/13/2006
Salon.com
01/26/2005
Salon.com
03/09/2004
Boxes and Arrows
11/20/2003
Boxes & Arrows
05/15/2003
New Architect
03/30/2002
New Architect
01/01/2002
ACIA
11/29/2000
What is an Extranet?
THINK
01/01/1997
Harvard Magazine
06/01/1995
Yankee
01/01/1995
Utne Reader
10/01/1994
Harvard Magazine
08/01/1994
Harvard Magazine
06/01/1994
Harvard Magazine
04/01/1994
Harvard Magazine
12/01/1993
Boston Business
02/01/1991
Boston Business
11/01/1990
Boston Business
09/01/1990
Boston Business
07/01/1990
Boston Business
05/01/1990
Boston Business
03/01/1990
Boston Business
11/01/1989
Death of a CEO
Boston Business
In From the Cold
Boston Business
Co-Ed Fraternities
Boston Business
Torch Bearer
Design Times
Haute Retro
Design Times
Blueprint
Design Times
Workspace: Anchor Capital
Design Times
Workspace: Design Collective
Design Times
Workspace: Elkus/Manfredi
Design Times
Workspace: Color and Light
Design Times
Workspace: Frank Robinson
Design Times
Show House
Design Times
Supply Side
Design Times
The Inn at the Round Barn
Design Times
Wheatleigh
Design Times
Know How
Design Times
Big Blues (by Paul Carroll)
Library Journal
Comeback (by Paul Ingrassia)
Library Journal
Monster Trucks and Hair in a Can (by Bill Geist)
Library Journal
How Credit Money Shapes the Economy (by Robert Guttman)
Library Journal
The Economics of Art and Culture (by James Heilbrun)
Library Journal
Just Do It (by Donald Katz)
Library Journal
The Saga of Saga (by William Scandling)
Library Journal
Like No Other Store (by Marvin Traub)
Library Journal