A History of Patterns in User Experience Design
As part of my classes that I teach at CCA, interaction design patterns come up. Sometimes in their simple form of elements as captured in a style guide and some...
Category: Pattern Library
Considering the cross device experience
I have been super busy lately working on the beginnings of a Mobile Pattern Library for a client. This work involves a lot of auditing applications. I am lookin...
Patterns Talk for An Event Apart
Last month I was one of the speakers at An Event Apart, Minneapolis. It was a fantastic experience and I highly recommend it. If it’s at all in your budge...
Working With a Pattern Library Day to Day
[Part 7 of a series on Patterns. Working with a Pattern Library.] Patterns, Components, and Code, Oh My! Ok, so now you have a pattern library. Now what? Ultima...
Organizing your pattern libary
[Part 6 of a series on Patterns. Organizing the pattern library for a design team.] Organizing a pattern library is like organizing any other large body of cont...
Reviewing Patterns for Use
[Part 5 of a series on Patterns. Developing a quality system.] Once you have a collection of patterns they should be reviewed by the team or designated represen...
The news is out – Yahoo! Pattern Library finding a new home
The Yahoo! Pattern Library, that I founded, thanks to the insight of Irene Au (now at Google) will be moving homes from the Yahoo! Developer Network to uipatter...
How to write an interaction design pattern
[Part 4 of a series on Patterns. How to write patterns once you have identified them.] Writing interaction design patterns can seem easy on the surface. After a...
How to identify interaction design patterns
[Part 3 of a series on Patterns. Understanding the concept of the reusable solution.] Identifying patterns in architecture The first thing you have to do before...
Where did the idea of patterns come from?
[Part 2 of a series on Patterns. Parts of this post excerpted in part from my work in chapter 1 of Designing Social Interfaces: Principles, Practices and Patter...
Why have a design pattern library?
[author’s note: This is part one in a multi-part series. Based on material I developed with Christian Crumlish and Lucas Pettinati for a workshop we gave ...
Falling off the radar here but not there
I have been super busy lately with client work, presentations and conferences and prepping for an upcoming portfolio review related to my photography work. I ha...
New design, new patterns
The Yahoo! Pattern library has launched a new design – to match the revamped design of the Yahoo! Developer Network. This was a project that originally st...
Evolving Design Patterns
A few weeks ago, I attended the UX Book club event here in San Francisco. The book in discussion was A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander. It was a livel...
Designing Social Interfaces – the Web 2.0 Expo version
Social Patterns Talk – Web 2.0 version View more presentations from Erin Malone. We gave a 3 hour workshop this morning at Web 2.0. Expanded info about th...