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Eudaimonia

n. 1) happiness; well-being. 2) Happiness as the result of an active life governed by reason — Webster’s

11 min readMay 28, 2023

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Regenerative UX

“Nothing is easier than to formulate high ideals, but few things are more difficult than to discover the means whereby those ideals can be…

6 min readMay 6, 2023

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Moving Fast, Thinking Slow

In an increasingly metrics-driven business climate, UX practitioners face escalating pressures to deliver small-scale results. Is there a…

9 min readJan 22, 2020

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Moving Fast, Thinking Slow

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Sprinting Fast and Slow

Experiential futures and speculative design practices have gained a lot of traction in the design world lately, fueled by a growing…

9 min readAug 20, 2019

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https://www.sustainability-times.com/clean-cities/industry-4-0-could-revolutionize-sustainable-architecture/

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Alex Wright

In the Shadow of Schumacher

Last month I spent a few days at Schumacher College to participate in a short course in Transition Design taught by CMU faculty members…

5 min readJul 12, 2018

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In the Shadow of Schumacher

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Alex Wright

Practical Futuring

Designing a curriculum to promote long-term thinking in the workplace

10 min readDec 16, 2017

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Practical Futuring

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Samurai, ninjas, and “disabling” design

In his 1905 novel A Modern Utopia, H.G. Wells imagined a future world in which a small group of highly skilled creative workers wielded…

6 min readJun 2, 2017

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Samurai, ninjas, and “disabling” design

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Alex Wright

Purposeful work

Good work uses no thing without respect, both for what it is in itself and for its origin …. It does not dissociate life and work, or…

5 min readMar 19, 2017

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Purposeful work

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Alex Wright

Post-capitalist design

For our third sprint in year one of the CMU D.Des program, we explored how interaction design might evolve in an emerging post-capitalist…

6 min readDec 30, 2016

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Post-capitalist design

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Posture and mindset

For our second sprint in the CMU doctoral program, Dave Wolfenden guided us through a series of readings exploring questions of mental…

5 min readNov 15, 2016

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Alex Wright

Alex Wright

Head of UX at Google News; previously at Instagram, Etsy, The New York Times et al. PhD @ CMU Design. Books: Informatica, Cataloging the World. www.agwright.com

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