A History of Patterns in User Experience Design
UPDATE February 8, 2024I updated the diagram recently after working on my book about the history of interaction design and the contributions of women to the fie...
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...