Alex Wright


Featured Projects

The New York Times

As an information architect, developed a series of new products and services for the Times Web site (launching 2008)

The Long Now Foundation

Led the redesign and rearchitecture of The Rosetta Project, a global collaboration between 2000 linguists and native language speakers to create a contemporary version of the Rosetta Stone.

Yahoo!

Led user experience design for Yahoo!'s email, instant messaging and mobile alerts framework; developed a series of "concept car" prototypes to explore new product opportunities around music, photos and personal media storage.

Rollyo

Co-founded and led user experience design for Rollyo, the innovative "roll your own" search engine, nominated for a 2005 Webby award

Macromedia/Adobe

User experience consulting for macromedia.com; designed and developed new Flash MX-based applications for Macromedia Central.

IBM

Founded and led the User Experience team at ibm.com from 1995-1999. Led company-wide site redesign initiative, resulting in 400% increase in online sales.

Deep Blue vs. Garry Kasparov

Led 70-person project team coordinating Web coverage of the historic man-vs-machine chess match (winner of 1997 Cool Site of the Year award)

Harvard University

Created the first Harvard College Library Web site; member of team that launched www.harvard.edu site.

Clients

Adobe

AOL

Bittorrent

California Digital Library

Cingular

Cypress Semiconductor

Deep Blue vs. Garry Kasparov

Epylon

frog design

Harvard College Library

Hitachi

IBM

id8 Group

InformationWeek

Ingres

Internet Archive

Kontiki

Lemo

Liquid Thinking

Location, Inc.

Long Now Foundation

Macromedia

National Education Summit (1996)

New Media Centers

New York Times

Octane Ventures

Olympic Games (1996)

Organic

Pervado

Phoenix Pop

Postio

Province of British Columbia

Rollyo

Rosetta Project

Roundarch

Serena

Shipserv

SMWM

Splendora

Spotlife

Sun Microsystems

Travelpost

Varian, Inc.

Wrigley

Yahoo!

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