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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Most of the major work on Six.5 is done. Late last night I finished the template for each individual post (the page that results when you click on the the post’s title or the “
Last night I took Subtraction.com offline to start implementing the new redesign that I’ve been talking about for some weeks, so most of you will be reading this either via RSS feed or on Monday (or sometime thereafter). It’s been an interesting process, and it occurred to me that it would be entertaining (to me, anyway) to document a bit of it. So I’m going to use the next few days’ posts to talk about some of the improvements that this new redesign introduces.
The 20 Gigabyte 
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.
Just one day left to go until taxes are due. This evening I walked past the 
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