@Christian and @Jeremy These ideas are really interesting to me. One of the things we are considering trying to accomplish with the next round of changes to Pattern Tap is a bit of user interaction with the "sorting" and "organizing" of the design examples. This would include adding or commenting on tags (from the available list of tags, or suggesting a tag), adding or commenting on the collection a design belongs to.
Perhaps an additional resource here, could be an information list of links to resources concerning the pattern that informed that particular design. @Jared Your comment has me VERY interested in addressing and analyzing whole sites from a design/pattern perspective. I've found that Michael over at Konigi has been doing a good job of this, but I wonder if there is room for even more thorough investigation/documentation into that. Have you had any experience with developing something of this sort? In the case of flickr, what's the goal? To show the pattern of a carousel and then see how flickr implemented it in line with their brand and web layout? My question here, is how you provide a resource that has a good stratus of accessibility/readability. Like a good Bob Dylan song it needs to be accessible on multiple levels in order to be useful/educational to a larger audience. In my opinion, this is one of the issues that is a separator between the science UX and the implementation of design. Often I've found the heavy UX articles to be beyond the scope of the projects I've engaged in. Reading a 3000 word essay on Search Results for instance is compelling, but I might get the "same" end result by emulating what a great design team like Apple has done. In a visual way, I can see how to produce a great list of results with options for my users. The problem is I don't know WHY its good if I don't read. Perhaps this is a great need for both? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=31495 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
