Losing control

Khoi Vinh’s presentation, “Control”, conveys some important observations about the differences between print and interactive design.

I learned design principles while producing HTML back in the mid to late 90s, so never had the luxury of total control that print designers are used to. This presentation helped me understand interactive design principles that I had internalized through years of working in the medium, but hadn’t fully brought into conscious awareness.

Khoi Vinh is one of the most influential proponents of the minimalist aesthetic in interaction design, and currently works at the New York Times.