is a blog about design, technology and culture written by Khoi Vinh, and has been more or less continuously published since December 2000 in New York City. Khoi is currently Principal Designer at Adobe, Design Chair at Wildcard and co-founder of Kidpost. Previously, Khoi was co-founder and CEO of Mixel (acquired by Etsy, Inc.), Design Director of The New York Times Online, and co-founder of the design studio Behavior, LLC. He is the author of “Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design,” and was named one of Fast Company’s “fifty most influential designers in America.” Khoi lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn with his wife and three children. Refer to the advertising and sponsorship page for inquiries.
+Archives: 2017
April 2017 3 posts
- Movies Watched, March 2017
- Commodore 64: For the Love of a Machine
- Capture Nuzzel Stories in Instapaper with Workflow
March 2017 25 posts
- Minim Playing Cards
- The Deck Shuts Down
- Niche Tea
- Bumpr Notices
- Marketing in the Age of Trump
- How to Get Biased Data from Your Users
- The Evolution of TV Title Sequences
- Apple Acquires Workflow and the Future Looks Bright
- Le Petit Soldat
- The Economics of Flying Coach
- How We Built Bumpr as a Tiny Side Project—in Just Four Years!
- LiquidText Shows the True Potential of iPad Software
- Voice Assistants Are a Design Problem
- Google Maps Timeline Is Moves 2.0, Except Not for iOS
- Advertising in the Age of Trump
- Adobe Illustrator at Thirty
- Bumpr Is a Web Browser and Email Switcher for Mac
- Kite Compositor, Prototyping and WYSIWYG v. Coding
- No One Remembers but the eMate 300 Is Twenty Years Old Today
- Things to Think About When Using Facebook
- 36 Days of Type, 2017
- Should You Go to School for User Experience Design?
- Life in Brooklyn
- Sneakers That Can Order Pizza for You
- Movies Watched, February 2017
February 2017 17 posts
- Abstract Wants to Change the Way Designers Work—An Interview with Josh Brewer
- Paintings by Simon Stålenhag
- 28 Days of Black Designers
- Designer Fund’s Bridge Program
- Discussing Design Criticism with Jarrett Fuller on Scratching the Surface
- New Commercials Pitch iPad Pro as PC Replacement
- Movies Watched, January 2017
- Caavo Might Solve the Living Room Problem
- How Apple Pencil and Adobe Draw Saved Valentine’s Day
- The Japanese “Kong: Skull Island” Poster Is Wonderful
- When Life Gives You Pollution, Make Pollutionade
- A Workflow for Speedtest
- While You Were Watching Your Vizio TV, Vizio Was Watching You
- iTunes Terms and Conditions: The Graphic Novel
- Interview with the Director of “Graphic Means,” a Documentary About Design’s Lost Past
- How to Tell Your Product’s Story
- The iPad Is Not Done
January 2017 10 posts
- All the Money I Paid to Walt Disney Last Year
- Designing Logos with Grids
- Movies Watched, 2016
- New Mozilla Branding
- Astropad Studio Is an iPad App That Changes Your Mac
- Controlling a Mac with Amazon Echo or Google Home
- Four More Years
- At Home with Echo and Home
- Messin’ with Workflow
- Tyrus Wong, Disney Artist, Dies at 106