is a blog about design, technology and culture written by Khoi Vinh, and has been more or less continuously published since December 2000 in New York City. Khoi is currently Principal Designer at Adobe. Previously, Khoi was co-founder and CEO of Mixel (acquired in 2013), Design Director of The New York Times Online, and co-founder of the design studio Behavior, LLC. He is the author of “How They Got There: Interviews with Digital Designers About Their Careers”and “Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design,” and was named one of Fast Company’s “fifty most influential designers in America.” Khoi lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn with his wife and three children.
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After our client meeting in Northern Virginia yesterday, I am now charged with, among other things, the creation of a series of click-through wireframes. The idea is to model the page ‘flow’ in order to provide a rudimentary demonstration of the experience we’ll be building. This is definitely information architecture territory, and while I flatter myself that I am qualified to participate in IA activities, I certainly do not participate in them often enough. What’s more, I gotta say that I’m not all that hot on using 
Apple has just released the second public beta of its upstart Safari Web browser with the prominent addition of tabbed browsing. This is a user interface feature that’s old hat to users of Netscape 7, Camino, Opera etc. It’s relatively new to me, having only recently emerged from my seclusion inside of the Internet Explorer tank, and I’m already a huge fan. There’s a camp that dislikes tabs but I can’t even imagine why. First, tab usage is entirely optional and second, it’s so much more efficient and organized than toggling between multiple windows.
So this afternoon I was sitting here at my desk working on the next redesign of this Web site (coming soon) with the TV turned on in the background, tuned into the 
During the Internet boom, I counted myself among the many legions who switched over entirely from Netscape — then at version 4.something and a disaster of a Web browser — to Microsoft Internet Explorer. With its monstrous and seemingly unstoppable marketshare, IE became a de facto standard, and it just struck me as being so much easier to design Web pages for IE than to strive for cross-browser compatibility. Now, I see the error of my ways.
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While doing some research on style guides at Behavior, I came across two interesting specimens from Apple and Microsoft. They’re both valuable references, but their approach to covering similar design concepts is indicative of the reputation each company has developed for design advocacy.
We’re incrementally losing the 20th Century: today, United Parcel Service has officially done away with its venerable, 
Clark MacLeod: “