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 and the Evolution of Content | Now What? podcast | 2021
Moving from UCD to SOD | Flowmapp | 2021
Design for Systems, not Users | Ncommon podcast | 2021
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