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. Previously, Khoi was co-founder and CEO of Mixel (acquired in 2013), Design Director of The New York Times Online, and co-founder of the design studio Behavior, LLC. He is the author of “How They Got There: Interviews with Digital Designers About Their Careers”and “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.
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Isn’t this idea kind of like what they teach us in design school when they force us to handset type, present projects as marker renderings, etc. so we’re forced to think and figure out what we’re doing instead of just clicking buttons in some Adobe program?
As a side note, even though a lot of us are more creative with restrictions, does anyone ever feel like they put unnecessary restrictions on themselves when they’re working?
In the German language exists a popular idiom that means:
‘In der Ke
liegt die Wrze.
Translated word by word:
‘In the shortness
lies the spice.
Or better:
‘Brevity is the soul of wit.’