“The way I look at my job, I spend a lot of time trying to create the conditions for good design to happen and I don't get an opportunity to do a lot of hands on work.” WayTryingLooksHandsHappensJobsOpportunityConditionsDesignGood Design Author:Khoi Vinh
“Things have a behavior online, whereas in print, there is a single canonical expression for them, but online everything responds to different criteria or has inherent states to it based on that criteria. So, you have to design that in a different way. It's a completely different dynamic even though it may look similar.” WayLooksMayDifferentStatesDesignExpressionBehaviorDifferent WaysOnlinePrintInherentCriteria Author:Khoi Vinh
“You have to design a story that might appear on the front page of the newspaper for the website. You don't have to design it in such a way that it can be self contained, that it makes sense if you never hit the front page of it.” IfsWaySelfStoriesMightFrontsDesignPagesNewspapersMake SenseWebsiteSelf Contained Author:Khoi Vinh
“I think the way design was practiced for most of the 20th century was very declarative. A designer came up with a solution for a project and put it in place and shipped the solution and it landed in a reader or a customer's hands as a brochure. They would see it as a poster, or as a piece of signage. And that was sort of it. That was the end of it. I think Internet technology has really upended that whole equation because in some ways a designer's work is never really done online.” ThinkingWayEndsDoneWholeHandsTechnologyPiecesCenturyDesignReaderInternetProjectsSolutionsCustomersDesignerOnline20th CenturyEquationsPostersInternet TechnologyBrochures Author:Khoi Vinh
“Designers from start to finish now in digital media have to think in a much more sort of thoughtful serious and humble way about how design audiences will receive their products.” ThinkingWayAudienceMediaDesignSeriousProductsHumbleDesignerThoughtfulDigitalDigital Media Author:Khoi Vinh
“I think a lot more people are able to take on a design challenge than ever before. And this was true 20 years ago when the desktop publishing revolution came about that allowed people with Macintosh's at home to produce professional-looking newsletters or publications for the first time. So, there's a long march toward more democratization for design.” PeopleThinkingYearsFirstsLongHomeAbleChallengesDesignProduceRevolutionFirst TimeYears AgoMarchPublishingPublicationDemocratizationMacintoshDesktopNewslettersDesktop Publishing Author:Khoi Vinh
“I think there's always something about design that is going to be very difficult for more than a small fraction of people to really get.” PeopleThinkingDifficultDesignFractions Author:Khoi Vinh
“I think design does evolve in a meaningful sense. I think if you look at design as a part of the continuum of communication, since even before Guttenberg.” IfsThinkingLooksDoeDesignCommunicationMeaningfulEvolveContinuum Author:Khoi Vinh
“Unsolicited redesigns are terrific and fun and useful, and I hope designers never stop doing them. But as they do so, I also hope they remember it helps no one - least of all the author of the redesign - to assume the worst about the original source and the people who work hard to maintain and improve it, even though those efforts may seem imperfect from the outside.” PeopleMayHardHelpingSeemsRememberFunEffortWorstDesignHard WorkSourceOriginalsAssumingDesignerImperfectTerrificRedesign Author:Khoi Vinh
