thoughts about ux design, patterns and code
You know you want to. You really do want to learn all you can about design patterns. Perhaps even write a batch and contribute to the open patterns movement. Or maybe you want to bring some order to the chaos in your studio and save your company some money. We’ll show you how. Design Patterns: [...]
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Published today on Boxes and Arrows, Will Evans interviews Christian Crumlish, Lucas Pettinati and I about design patterns, building pattern libraries and things like constraints and ethics. “Constraints are a fact of life. Patterns are just tools to guide decisions. Converting every pattern to a component solution with skin and code will limit a designers [...]
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I am pleased to announce that we recently released a set of 9 Reputation Patterns over on the Yahoo! Pattern Library. Written primarily by Bryce Glass, these patterns are many months in the making and reflect the work of Bryce, product manager Yvonne French, and much guidance from our former community guru Randy Farmer as [...]
Earlier this year, as part of our workshop at the IA Summit, we made a robust set of design stencils that map to the Yahoo! Pattern Library and the Yahoo! User Interface Library. These stencils were made for Omnigraffle, Visio, Adobe Illustrator and PNG files for Photoshop and SVG for other applications. We have now [...]
This week we head out to the IA Summit and present our workshop on writing, using and building a pattern library and using that with code to prototype and build sites. My slides are done and Lucas is pulling everything together from the three of us presenting. It should be an interesting day and hopefully [...]
I am conducting a preconference workshop, with my esteemed colleagues Christian Crumlish and Lucas Pettinati, on building a pattern library and using patterns and code libraries to build sites. The official title: Design patterns: from interaction to design to build The full workshop description is posted on the conference website. I highly recommend you check [...]
Christian Crumlish, Lucas Pettinati and I submitted a pre-conference workshop and we just got notice that we were accepted. Watch for more info but we will be conducting a full day workshop with hands on exercises. You will learn how to build and care for a pattern library and how, with that library and a [...]
Christian Crumlish, our Pattern Library curator, over here at Yahoo!, was recently filmed giving a brownbag on the pattern library to Yahoo!’s UED organization. It’s a good talk on the history of the library and how to create patterns and why we want to create patterns and the publishing process we use here at Yahoo!. [...]
from O'Reilly Media and Yahoo! Press
