Occupation: Blogger Birth: December 3, 1971
I think if you took away all the designers and automated the process tomorrow, the end result would be really, really dissatisfying and disturbing to….
I think I sort of have a love/hate relationship with a reputation I have for being the designer who works with grids..
I think now we're seeing the pendulum switch back to this idea where conversations are more important, if not more important than documents..
The way I look at my job, I spend a lot of time trying to create the conditions for good design to happen and I don't get an opportunity to do a lot ….
You have this really powerful technological infrastructure that can do really tremendous things. At the same time, it's never going to be as flexible….
I really try to keep my personal workspace as tidy as possible. I really believe there's a place for everything and everything in its place, as the ….
I think the thing about the Internet is that it has so many characteristics that can be easily construed to be similar or almost identical to print t….
Even though the means of production are more available than ever, I think the true expertise is as rare as ever..
I think the way design was practiced for most of the 20th century was very declarative. A designer came up with a solution for a project and put it i….
I think the obstacles are the same as the opportunities, is the way we like to look at them..
You have to design a story that might appear on the front page of the newspaper for the website. You don't have to design it in such a way that it ca….
I guess if there was a desert island scenario and I only could take one font with me, I guess it would be Helvetica, though it has it's limitations, ….
You have to have a balance and understand that as much as you would like to have absolute control over everything, it's just not realistic..
I have a few memories of being young here in the United States, but almost no recollections of being young in Vietnam..
I think design does evolve in a meaningful sense. I think if you look at design as a part of the continuum of communication, since even before Gutten….
Designers from start to finish now in digital media have to think in a much more sort of thoughtful serious and humble way about how design audiences….
Even though more people can build websites today than even 10 years ago, I think there's probably even less really deep understand of how a good webs….
Things have a behavior online, whereas in print, there is a single canonical expression for them, but online everything responds to different criteri….
I think there's always something about design that is going to be very difficult for more than a small fraction of people to really get..
I know that what keeps me interested in my job and in the medium in general that what makes every few months more interesting, or newly interesting e….
I think there’s a really selfish part of me that wishes I had the tools that I had today in the context of a designer practicing in the middle part o….