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This week we caught up with Khoi Vinh, an insightful and talented designer making Wildcard in New York City. In this Skype chat we talked about designing for the tablet, honesty on the web and how Khoi manages to maintain so many projects!

This week we caught up with Khoi Vinh, an insightful and talented designer making Wildcard in New York City. In this Skype chat we talked about designing for the tablet, honesty on the web and how Khoi manages to maintain so many projects! 

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##### Khoi on the Web:

*   [Twitter](https://twitter.com/khoi)
*   [Website](http://www.subtraction.com/)
*   [Wildcard](http://trywildcard.com/)
*   [How They Got There](http://howtheygotthere.us/)
*   [Dribbble](https://dribbble.com/subtraction)
*   [Instagram](https://instagram.com/khoi/)

##### Show Notes:

**5:00** - We catch up with Khoi and chat about his current project, Wildcard.

*   [Wildcard](http://www.trywildcard.com/)
*   [Jordan Cooper](https://twitter.com/jordancooper)
*   [Doug Petkanics](https://twitter.com/petkanics)
*   [Eric Tang](https://twitter.com/ericxtang)
*   [Stephen Meszaros](https://twitter.com/stephenmeszaros)

**9:00** - Khoi tells us more about the specifics of designing at Wildcard, including why cards are the future of the web.

*   [What is a card?](http://www.subtraction.com/2014/08/26/what-is-a-card/)
*   [Cards are the future of the web](http://www.subtraction.com/2013/09/09/cards-are-the-future-of-the-web/)

**15:00** - How have you become such a prolific design writer?

*   [subtraction.com](http://www.subtraction.com/)
*   Khoi's book, [How They Got There](http://howtheygotthere.us/)
*   [Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design](http://www.amazon.com/Ordering-Disorder-Principles-Design-Voices/dp/0321703537)
*   [How She Got There: Erika Hall](https://medium.com/galleys/how-she-got-there-3a64d89ba112)

**20:00** - We learn a bit more about the process behind _How They Got There_.

*   [How They Got There](http://howtheygotthere.us/)

**26:00** - Khoi's also busy on other side projects and explorations - we learn more.

*   [Mixel](http://www.subtraction.com/2011/11/10/introducing-mixel/)
*   [Adobe Comp CC](http://www.subtraction.com/2015/03/30/layup-is-now-adobe-comp-cc/)

**32:00** - What are the possibilities for tablets that are still untapped?

*   [Paper](https://www.fiftythree.com/paper)

**37:00** - We chat about what it means to be honest on the web.

*   [@khoi](https://twitter.com/khoi)
*   [Look and Feel and Feel](https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3868-look-and-feel-and-feel)

**47:00** - Khoi tells us about how he shares content and thinks about having a large following on Twitter.

*   [Buffer](https://buffer.com)

*   **54:00** - What were your responsibilities while designing for the New York Times?

*   [nytimes.com](http://www.nytimes.com/)
*   [A Farewell to the Times](https://medium.com/@niederme/a-farewell-to-the-times-32013afef8cc)

*   **1:00:00** - We dig in more to Khoi's journey since leaving the Times.

*   [Kidpost](https://www.kidpost.net/)