design patterns

How to write an interaction design pattern

by erin on 04/20/2010

in Interaction design,Pattern Library,Tools

[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 all, aren’t you just documenting an interaction snippet or module or component? Sort of. It looks easy on the surface, but the actual process of writing the pattern [...]

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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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