Khoi Vinh's Blog, page 18

Wireframe: A High-quality Storytelling Podcast about Design

Today marks the debut of “Wireframe,” a podcast about user experience design brought to you by Adobe and Gimlet Creative—the…

Uber, Lyft, Taxis, Design and the Age of Ambivalence

The massive disruption that ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft have visited on the taxi industry stirs up so many…

Movies Watched, August 2018

I try to post these roundups as soon as I can after each month closes but I’m barely getting this…

Adobe Design Summit and Cultural Bias

There are literally hundreds of designers working at Adobe in offices all over the world. Back in July we got…

Your Public Library Is Where It’s At

Sociologist Eric Klinenberg in an op-ed piece for The New York Times: Libraries are being disparaged and neglected at precisely…

Movies Watched, July 2018

In spite of all the high-minded cinema fare I profess to care for so deeply, the movies I get most…

Designers Are Defining Usability Too Narrowly

To our own detriment, designers prefer to think about “how” much more than “why.” This was demonstrated in my blog…

Why Designers Don’t Want to Think When They Read

Designers Fabricio Teixeira and Caio Braga are the publishers of UX Collective, which they claim is the “largest Medium publication…

What Is This Thing Called Design?

Sometimes you need to explain what design is to people who don’t understand it, but need to. This is the…

Movies Watched, June 2018

Paul Schrader’s “First Reformed” does not itself fully stare into the abyss of human callousness, but it’s enough that it…