I find this REALLY impressive work on many levels!!!! Thanx for sharing! In particular it is a great example of RIA design (yes, peeps you have to download a new plug-in, so what!?!) .
-- dave On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:28 PM, J. Ambrose Little <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi folks! > I thought you'd like to know about a new (free) tool that Infragistics just > released. We call it Quince, and it's a RIA UX patterns explorer. > > You can read my in-depth intro <http://snipurl.com/quince-intro> that > covers what you can do and some of the thinking behind it, if you like, or > just jump right in and try Quince now <http://quince.infragistics.com> . > You need Silverlight, but it's an easy install on both Windows and > Mac--just follow the link to install. I use it mostly in Safari on my Mac > and Chrome on Vista, but it should work in Firefox and IE, too. ;) > > Quince Community - You Guys and Gals > I've seen a fair amount of conversation on this list, and a ton of good > advice being bandied around (accordions, tag clouds, and much more). > Problem is, it just gets lost and you end up having to repeat yourself. A > nice thing about Quince is that you can use it as a reference point for > advice--you can communicate best practices through patterns and simply point > people in that direction. (And of course you get all the other nice things > design patterns do for you.) > > Quince offers a number of different kinds of community participation where > you can show your stuff and also learn from others: > > - Use the "I Use This" on the pattern viewer to simply indicate you use > it (and thereby suggest it is worth using for others). > - Suggest improvements to the patterns--we thought this was better than > ad-hoc, wiki style to help ensure quality. > - Share examples of patterns--simply upload a screenshot with a short > description and citation. > - And finally, the big momma of participation :), propose patterns to > the community! > > We intend to continue to build out the library ourselves with new patterns > we find and that build upon these, moving up the interaction chain from the > lower level ones that often map to widgets/controls, to more composite > experience-level patterns. There are some like this already there, but > there is a lot of room to expand! This is why we chose "UX" pattern > explorer instead of just "UI"--to emphasize the holistic storytelling > approach, i.e., patterns that compose any number of discrete interactions > with UIs and widgets to achieve a particular goal. > > Another benefit I hope folks will see from Quince is that it can help to > get developers and designers speaking the same language. For instance, we, > Infragistics, are pretty well known in the .NET developer community, and > we're telling them all about this tool, too, and hoping/expecting they'll > use it themselves. (The reception on twitter and blogs even just today has > been enthusiastic.) Design patterns are something already familiar to devs > and architects, so if folks in these IxD/IA/UX communities come together > with the dev communities in Quince, we can continue to help bridge the gap > that way. > > In any case, I hope you find you can use the tool in your own work to > discover, find, and use patterns to improve your own designs, and of course > any participation would be a benefit to everyone using it. > > Nota Bene: As you'll see in the Sources section in the patterns, we owe a > debt of gratitude to others who have pioneered in this area, particularly > Yahoo's library (Christian Crumlish et al) and Jennifer Tidwell's Designing > Interfaces, among others. If you're reading, thanks! (We'd love to have > you on the Quince Patterns Council.) Even though we have endeavored to > provide original content for the patterns, certainly their work informed us, > guided us, and provided a solid foundation to jumpstart this community. (We > did keep the same pattern names because we felt creating new ones would > counteract part of the purpose of patterns--providing common vocabulary.) > > > Cordially, > > Ambrose Little > Quince PM and IxD > Infragistics, Inc. > > P.S. We do have feeds inside the app for various Quince content-related > stuff, but if you want to stay on top of new developments, design rationale > thoughts, announcements, and such regarding Quince (and other UX schtuff), > our new UX team blog, Round Edges <http://blogs.infragistics.com/blogs/ux>, > is the place to track. (Bear with us as the forums and blogs receive a > facelift.) > > _______________________________________________ > IA Institute members mailing list > Post to this list: [email protected] > List information (including archives and unsubscribing: > http://lists.iainstitute.org/listinfo.cgi/iai-members-iainstitute.org > > Check out IAI's IA Summit Workshop March 18, 2009 > Beyond Findability: Reframing IA Practice & Strategy for Turbulent Times > https://www.asis.org/Conferences/IA09/seminars/Wed_Beyond_Findability.html > -- Dave Malouf http://davemalouf.com/ http://twitter.com/daveixd http://scad.edu/industrialdesign http://ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ 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
