“I think I sort of have a love/hate relationship with a reputation I have for being the designer who works with grids.” ThinkingHateReputationDesignerLove HateGridsLove Hate Relationship Author:Khoi Vinh
“I think the thing about the Internet is that it has so many characteristics that can be easily construed to be similar or almost identical to print that it can be misleading.” ThinkingInternetCharacteristicsPrintIdenticalMislead Author:Khoi Vinh
“I think the key difference between the web and print medium is, on the web or any digital medium, you're dealing with this added element of behavior.” ThinkingDifferencesKeysBehaviorElementsMediumsDigitalPrint Author:Khoi Vinh
“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 the obstacles are the same as the opportunities, is the way we like to look at them.” ThinkingWayLooksOpportunityObstacles 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
“Even though the means of production are more available than ever, I think the true expertise is as rare as ever.” ThinkingMeanProductionsAvailableExpertise 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 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
“I think now we're seeing the pendulum switch back to this idea where conversations are more important, if not more important than documents.” IfsThinkingImportantIdeasSeeingConversationDocumentsPendulums Author:Khoi Vinh
“I think there’s a really selfish part of me that wishes I had the tools that I had today in the context of a designer practicing in the middle part of the 20th century when creating a single expression of an idea was the norm.” ThinkingIdeasTodayWishMiddleCenturyExpressionCreatingToolsSelfishDesigner20th CenturyNorm Author:Khoi Vinh
“I know that what keeps me interested in my job and in the medium in general that what makes every few months more interesting, or newly interesting every few weeks, is the idea that everything is changing, that the ideas that you think are sacrosanct and unimpeachable suddenly are up for grabs again.” ThinkingKnowsIdeasJobsInterestingWeekMonthsMediums Author:Khoi Vinh
“I think we are in this era right now where every element in a webpage is rendered to within an inch of its life. I think if it's a button, it looks like a physical button, you know, if it's a mailbox that's meant to signal a messaging functionality then the whole mailbox right down to the rivets on the hypothetical metallic housing is rendered.” IfsThinkingKnowsLooksWholeRight NowElementsErasInchesButtonsSignalsHousingHypotheticalMetallicFunctionalityMailboxes 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
“I guess if there was a desert island scenario and I only could take one font with me, I guess it would be Helvetica, though it has it's limitations, I think it's incredibly versatile and gets the job done and I also think it's one of the typefaces that will really survive the test of time beyond the next several decades if not into the next century.” IfsThinkingDoneWould BeJobsNextCenturyTestsDecadesLimitationDesertIslandsScenariosVersatileGet The Job DoneTest Of TimeFontsTypefacesHelvetica Author:Khoi Vinh
“I think there's a huge - there's a huge desire in me to make sense of the world in a way that I think you can trace back to that early disruption, this idea of wanting to compensate for that really kind of traumatic experience and sort of seeing its impact on my immediate and extended family.” ThinkingWorldWayKindIdeasDesireSeeingHugeImpactMake SenseDisruptionTraumatic ExperiencesExtended Family Author:Khoi Vinh
