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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My trusty, first-generation 
A major defeat for democracy is imminent 
Several years ago, I came across a link to 
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Enterprising shareware authors are writing terrific software for Mac OS X, and this stuff is not only powerful and handsome, it’s exceptionally easy to use. Witness Alexandre Carlhian’s 
The first mobile phone I bought was a Qualcomm QCP-1900 in 1997, when the devices were the size of a case for your eyeglasses and were just beginning to achieve mass appeal. That was six years ago and mobile phones seemed new to me then, but one thing I’ve since learned is that technology is always older than one might suspect. In fact, the very first mobile telephone call was placed 
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