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Alex Wright is an American writer who has also worked in the fields of user experience and information design. [1] He is the author of Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age (2014), [2] Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages (2007), and the forthcoming Empire of Ink: The Printers, Rogues, [3] and Radicals Who Invented American Media (Basic Books, 2026). A revised edition of Glut was published by Cornell University Press in 2023 under the title Informatica. [4] Wright's writing has appeared in publications including The New York Times , The Atlantic , Salon, The Believer, and Communications of the ACM . [5] [6] [7] [8]
Wright holds a Ph.D. in Transition Design from Carnegie Mellon University, an M.S. in Library and Information Science from Simmons College, and a B.A. in English Literature from Brown University. [9] [10] From 2008 to 2019, he taught in the MFA Interaction Design program at the School of Visual Arts in New York. [11] Throughout his career, he has been a frequent contributor to The New York Times. Wright currently resides in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, two sons, and dog, Yoda. [12] He has held UX leadership roles at Instagram, Etsy, The New York Times, and IBM; and have consulted for clients including frog design, Adobe, Yahoo!, The New York Public Library, and the Internet Archive, among others. [13]
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