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This is Design Matters with Debbie Millman from Design Observer.com.

On this program, Debbie Millman talks with Koy Vin

about how being an immigrant led him into the world of design, about his challenges

as design director at New York Times.com, and about why he's bullish on the artistic

possibilities of the iPad.

You can just swipe to make a mark,

and there's nothing more intuitive than that.

And I realize that you could use this device

to get people expressing themselves visually, making art.

Here's Debbie Millman.

Kuevin has taken the experience of making a collage and, if possible, he's made it better.

He's the creator of the addictive new iPad app Mixel, where you can play around with digital

images, post your creations, and then watch as other people create new Mixals from your art. It's just the most recent feat for

Koy Vinh, who's been named one of Fast Company's 50 most influential designers.

In 2006, Vin became design director at the New York Times, where he

oversaw some of the site's most creative, interactive experiments.

Vin resigned from the Times in 2010. In the time since then he's done some deep

thinking about what he saw and now what he sees ahead.

Koy Vinh, welcome to Design Matters. Thank you so much for having me.

So Koy, is it true that everything you learned about design you learned in the 90s?

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