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Where did the idea of patterns come from?

by erin on 03/25/2010

in Information Architecture,Pattern Library

[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 Patterns for the Social Web] A brief history. The notion of using interaction design patterns in the user experience design process follows the model that computer software programming [...]

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Evolving Design Patterns

by erin on 08/04/2009

in Interaction design,Pattern Library,Tools

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 lively discussion and drifted back and forth between architecture, the Yahoo! Pattern Library, our Social Patterns collection, patterns in interaction design and the motivations behind that [...]

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