“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 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 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
