Alexis Lloyd

Alexis is a product design and innovation leader who designs experiences for how we create and consume information on the internet. She is currently VP of Product Design at Medium ✏️ and has previously led design and futures work at The New York Times R&D Lab 🧪, Axios 📣, and Automattic 🔖. She co-founded the Ethical Futures Lab 👁 and is passionate about building thoughtful interactions between humans and machines.

Writing & speaking

• Camera Obscura: Beyond the lens of user-centered design | Medium | 2020
• R2D2 as a model for AI collaboration | Medium | 2020
• The dark side of design: a conversation about addictive technology | The New School | 2018
• Playable systems: principles for ethical product design | Medium | 2018
• C3P0, R2D2, and Iron Man: Designing relationships with machines | Eyeo | 2016
• How to think about bots | Motherboard | 2016
• The future of news is not an article | NYTLabs | 2015
• Designing for the future of news | The New School | 2015
• Object Narratives | Future of Storytelling | 2014
• Designing conversations with algorithms Lift Conference | 2014
• If this toaster could talk | The Atlantic | 2013

Projects

• Eden Axios's publishing platform
• Axios Innovative news experiences
• A meditation on the open web Exploring the internet beyond platforms
• Automattic product experience playbook Principles & best practices for product design
• Listening Table Furniture for augmenting conversations
• Editor An experimental text editor for micro-tagging
• Object Record The narrative potential of connected objects
• Lazarus Revitalizing The New York Times photo archive
• Kepler Semantic network visualization
• Julia Ambient computing interactions in the kitchen
• Mirror Ambient information display in the home

Press

• Alexis Lloyd: Futurist not Futurist | Near Future Laboratory podcast | 2021
• Alexis Lloyd on the granularity of media | The informed life podcast | 2021
• Alexis Lloyd: Small Design Choices Can Change the Internet 99U | 2019
• Women in design: Superheroes, legends, and rising stars Accent | 2018
• Designers who matter: Alexis Lloyd | WIRED | 2014