
Michael Bierut, Jessica Helfand|Audio
September 25, 2018
From the Archive: Ashleigh Axios
Ashleigh Axios is the design exponent at Automattic and a former creative director for the White House’s Office of Digital Strategy.
When Axios joined the Office of Digital Strategy in 2012, she wasn’t sure how she would fit in. But she found that
there are a lot more similarities than I assumed between the way that I think as a designer and as a digital strategist and the ways that the technologists were thinking, or the ways in which the economists and councillors and legal department.
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