Now, just to be a bit contrary, I will also note that some organizations use their pattern libraries as a form of style guide, to impose consistency around certain interactions and flows. Whether this is the "correct" use of a pattern language or not, or a good idea or not, it is one application of the pattern idea.
On 10/18/07, Christopher Fahey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Likewise for interaction design patterns > -- you become literate in the full vocabulary of the design pattern > language, you immerse yourself in the "literature" (the body of work, > for example the web), and then when you sit down to design most of > your challenge is similar to the challenge of being a writer: good > articulation of a good idea. So in this analogy, a professional writer may keep a copy of the publication's house style guide handy to clarify whether to write homepage or home page. -xian- -- Christian Crumlish http://xianlandia.com Yahoo! pattern detective http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns IA Institute director of technology http://iainstitute.org ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
