“I think if you took away all the designers and automated the process tomorrow, the end result would be really, really dissatisfying and disturbing to a lot of people. So, I think there's a lot of value that print designers have.” PeopleIfsThinkingEndsWould BeValuesProcessResultsTomorrowDesignerPrintDisturbingEnd Results 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
“Even though more people can build websites today than even 10 years ago, I think there's probably even less really deep understand of how a good website gets built than there was even then.” PeopleThinkingYearsTodayBuiltYears AgoWebsiteReally Deep Author:Khoi Vinh
“I think as technology and expertise makes possible these sort of amazing levels of fidelity to the real world, a lot of people sort of get sort of - what's the word I'm looking for - seduced into that. And after a time, they get tired of it and they become a little bit more interested, I think at a certain level of subtraction and a new level of sophistication.” PeopleThinkingWorldLittlesRealCertainBitsLevelsTechnologyLittle BitTiredReal WorldExpertiseFidelitySophisticationSubtraction 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
