Khoi Vinh: Web Design
The over all emphasis on his speech was to inform designers and the general public about the ever evolving implement of web design. First he talked about how web design and print design are developed to tell a story through communicating with visuals and type. Further more he added the fact that print design gives the user basically no control over how the material is presented. Web design on the other hand has so many elements that web browsers allow the users to do with the presentation of information, such as text resizing, links that take the view off of the side and interfere with the flow of material, and many other chooses. It was nice to see a good comparison like that but it seems to me that he really had a huge bias toward the use of web design. In my opinion we have allow ourselves to equally look at both web and prints and know that there are weaknesses and strength attributed to both. I do agree however, the fact that when the information is translated from print to web design it allows for more user interaction by the ability to comment on virtually any web “conversation”.Bringing up the fact that web design is virtually a conversation, opposed to a speech, was a very good point. Overall Khio Vinh brought up good points on was we expect from designers vs. most of the web 2.0 world, such as Myspace, is completely night and day. Design is the ability to create a communication mecca that pulls users in and effectively tells users a story. After hearing what he had to say about Myspace it makes me want to take a look at my Myspace and completely revamp it and put a designers touch on it. ( I just watched Helvetica the movie a couple of days ago and love that he used it in his powerpoint very concrete to the significance of what the movie talked about.)
