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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So what do I do with the grid when I’m done? I can’t seem to save it or view the CSS or anything, even the link I sent via email just presented me with the blank starting point when I clicked it again.
I wondered the same thing. It appears to be a visual inspiration tool only. You need to construct the CSS manually.
I’m still waiting for the magnetized grid tool for the fridge (sort of like that ‘form a sentence’ thing). Maybe even incorporate IAB standard ad sizes too into the set of magnets?
I don’t understand why it’s so hard to make a grid-building tool… This sort of thing has been around in graphic design since the days of QuarkXpress.
I recently made a grid layout generator: http://gridinator.com/
I wish I had seen this before I designed mine, since I may have tried to do something a bit different. Mine looks a bit too similar for my liking.
Anyhoo! Mine does generate CSS for you, which is nice!
More features will come (I hope), but I just wanted to get it out the door and see if anyone would find it useful.
Hey, that looks very good! “all your grids are belong to us?” LOL! Bookmarked it!