Alex Wright


Featured Projects

The New York Times on the iPhone
Led the product definition and design of the first version of The New York Times' popular iPhone app

84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha

Led the UX design track for this volunteer project bringing together Buddhist teachers and scholars to translate the Tibetan Buddhist canon into English

Rollyo

Co-founded and led the design team for Rollyo, an early Web 2.0 company offering users a "roll your own" search engine

The Rosetta Project

Worked with a team from The Long Now Foundation to create a Web-based archive of the world's surviving languages

Spotlife

Led the redesign of this popular pre-YouTube Web video broadcasting service, acquired by Logitech in 2002.

Kasparov vs. Deep Blue

Executive-produced live Web coverage of the historic 1997 man vs. machine chess match

IBM.com

Established and led the User Experience team for IBM.com, leading three major site redesigns

All Projects

Adobe
AOL
BitTorrent
California Digital Library
Cingular
Cypress Semiconductor
frog design
Harvard University
Hitachi Systems
id8 Group
InformationWeek
Internet Archive
Kontiki
Lemo
Liquid Thinking
Location, Inc.
Long Now Foundation
Macromedia
National Education Summit
New Media Centers
The New York Times
Octane
Olympic Games (1996)
Organic
Pervado
Philly.com
Postio
Province of British Columbia
Rollyo
Rosetta Project
Roundarch
Serena
Shipserv
SMWM
Splendora
Spotlife
Sun Microsystems
Travelpost
Varian, Inc.
Wrigley
Yahoo!
ZapTXT