What Khoi Vinh thinks about design
American designer and writer of the blog Subtraction.com; design director of The New York Times Online from 2006 to 2010, co-founder of Mixel, and later a principal designer at Adobe.
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1 dated position, 2020, in their own words. Our reading of what Khoi Vinh has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingDesign's biggest challenge is explaining itself to society, not design systems or design-to-code.
Their wordsIf you care about design, I would posit that the most pressing evolutionary challenge it faces is not design systems or design-to-code or even accessible design, as worthwhile as perfecting those pursuits might be. Rather, the single most consequential barrier to design’s next level of success is simply explaining itself to society at large.
↗Interview with Scott Berkun, Author of “How Design Makes the World”subtraction.com