“I think I sort of have a love/hate relationship with a reputation I have for being the designer who works with grids.” Quote by Khoi Vinh
“I really try to keep my personal workspace as tidy as possible. I really believe there's a place for everything and everything in its place, as the cliché goes.” TryingBelieveTidyWorkspace Author:Khoi Vinh
“You have to have a balance and understand that as much as you would like to have absolute control over everything, it's just not realistic.” BalanceAbsolutesRealistic 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
“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 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
“You have this really powerful technological infrastructure that can do really tremendous things. At the same time, it's never going to be as flexible as we'd like it to be. Just by nature of web technology.” Can DoPowerfulTechnologyTechnologicalFlexibleInfrastructureReally Powerful 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