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S2E9: 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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Jessica Helfand is an artist and writer based in New England. A former critic at Yale School of Art and one of the founding editors of Design Observer, she is the author of several books on visual culture including Self Reliance, Design: The Invention of Desire, and Face: A Visual Odyssey. jessicahelfand.com

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