Re: [IxDA Discuss] Pattern Tap : Interface Design Inspiration
@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
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Pattern Tap : Interface Design Inspiration
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Jeremy Yuille [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: 2. a second approach i see could be for you to tie Pattern Tap into existing design pattern collections, by adding value from the design implementation inspiration side. +1 This is the direction my thoughts have been going. We've got a bunch of pattern collections where we say to ourselves it would be great to have way more visual examples to illustrate the variations and possibilities with this pattern and we're starting to have these great pattern-gallery-visual collections that are prompting grumps like me to say but it's not *really* a design pattern unless it has x, y, z... I think these are two great tastes that will taste good together. People like me who curate pattern libraries can link across to sites like Pattern Tap and factoryjoe's pattern collections on Flickr to point to examples of the patterns we are describing. Likewise, PatternTap and other sites can feel free to link to written descriptions of the patterns they are depicting, where available. Not that I would discourage you, Matthew, from adding problem/context/solution/rationale type elements to your visual example collections, but I also don't think you have to do that to gain some of the value that would be accomplished via cross-linking. eg: Pattern Tap might help fill out the 'examples' that other pattern collections use, and also extend these examples from merely illustrating the IxD pattern to describing different types of successful implementations from a visual and IxD aesthetics perspective. Lastly, is there any way that the framework of this site could be used for a more traditional Pattern Library? If so, I'd love to entertain that idea with some help from some of you smart types :), if you're interested! Absolutely I think this could be so, and I think you are demonstrating some great social and community features that most living pattern libraries would probably kill for. -xian- -- Christian Crumlish http://xianlandia.com Yahoo! pattern detective http://design.yahoo.com Yahoo! Developer Network evangelist http://open.yahoo.com IA Institute director of technology http://iainstitute.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
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Pattern Tap : Interface Design Inspiration
A few web design collections: http://www.flickr.com/photos/splat/sets/981332/ http://bestwebgallery.com/ http://www.templatemonster.com/ http://www.designmeltdown.com/ On Jul 23, 2008, at 6:00 PM, Jeremy Yuille wrote: btw - does anyone else here have any design driven sources that I could share with my students? -- Kim + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Kim Bieler Graphic Design www.kbgd.com + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 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
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Pattern Tap : Interface Design Inspiration
On Jul 25, 2008, at 6:20 AM, matthew Smith wrote: How would you best describe what Pattern Tap showcases? What language would you change or redefine? I'd be interested to see how we can gaurd those terms well, and honor the work of folks like yourself, while hopefully at the same time, offering a bit of expansion to terms like pattern. A collection of designs for inspiration. It's my opinion that general pattern libraries are of limited value. What teams really need are libraries of patterns that have been proven for their users in their specific design contexts. These will include localized thinking, including brand-related issues and details about the things that make their own experience unique, such as voice, tone, and feel. For example, the patterns for KodakGallery.com would be very different from the patterns for Flickr.com, even though they'll have a lot of the same types of elements, because they are trying for very different experiences. I think both teams could turn to a site like PatternTap for inspiration (which I think is your goal), but would create a library of patterns that was unique to their own needs and offerings. That's my take. Jared Jared M. Spool User Interface Engineering 510 Turnpike St., Suite 102, North Andover, MA 01845 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] p: +1 978 327 5561 http://uie.com Blog: http://uie.com/brainsparks 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
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Pattern Tap : Interface Design Inspiration
@J.Ambrose Can you point me to Jared's template? A quick googling produced a few results without a template (that I could see) I really can understand where you all are coming from. I feel a bit defensive as a visual designer, but that may be my lack of education in the UX Engineering field, or even the science end of interaction design. I think my defensiveness comes from a sense that while its good to have a common language for things, its also restrictive and may give an idea like patterns a kind of mortality, rather than letting it grow into broader meanings? I don't feel like examples is an appropriate way of explaning what Pattern Tap is (or could be as it grows). Its definitely more than a well organized gallery, and yet its not an educational outpost like ixda or some of the great Pattern Libraries out there. The reason I created Pattern Tap was because I felt that all of the Pattern Libraries lacked in any real quality of design, ability for designers to move through examples of those patterns in active use, and then be inspired or educated by them. We initially were heading in a much more educational route with examples and code to go, but it made for a more taxing app to move through. What are some suggestions you all might have about how I can tweak the current language (outside of the domain name of course :), to something more fitting? Or where would you suggest I be careful with language I use on the site? Lastly, is there any way that the framework of this site could be used for a more traditional Pattern Library? If so, I'd love to entertain that idea with some help from some of you smart types :), if you're interested! Thanks for the VERY engaging discussion. Matthew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Pattern Tap : Interface Design Inspiration
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Matthew Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: @J.Ambrose Can you point me to Jared's template? A quick googling produced a few results without a template (that I could see) Hi Matt, I don't want you to feel defensive, but I understand where you're coming from. I think Welie is a good example; Tidwell's book is also good: http://www.welie.com/patterns/showPattern.php?patternID=collapsible-panels Key things to include in patterns are: * Description - Briefly say what the pattern is/does/what it solves. * Problem - Often patterns solve particular problems/challenges in design, and identifying the problem can help people identify the kind of issues that the pattern addresses. * Context - This elaborates on the problem, providing more context to further help folks understand when the pattern is applicable and when it isn't. * Rationale - This dives into the why behind the pattern--why does it work, why is it good, that sort of thing, with the goal of empowering the individual to not only understand that particular pattern but to build a deeper foundation that they can design from w/o the explicit application of patterns. (Actually, all patterns are kind of geared towards that goal, but the rationale provides more explicit guidance than the other aspects.) * Implementation - Describes *how* to apply the pattern. * Examples - These are concrete examples of the pattern, and I think that's where your site shines. I agree about the general lack of good visual design in most examples I've seen of UI patterns. * Name - This serves the same purpose as names in general; to provide a common reference point (symbol) to facilitate discussion. Hope this helps clarify why I, at least, am concerned. As for the speculation that this more constrained understanding of the term pattern is what causes its lack of adoption, I can see where you're coming from. I tend to think, though, that it's less a matter of terminology as much as it is making patterns more usable. Another way to think of it: If you extend the definition, are you really encouraging more adoption or are you just changing the underlying meaning such that it is actually adoption of this new/different thing you are proposing and not patterns themselves? Thank you for engaging and not just blowing us off. :) Cordially, Ambrose 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
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Pattern Tap : Interface Design Inspiration
Matthew Smith wrote: Can you point me to Jared's template? A quick googling produced a few results without a template (that I could see) http://www.uie.com/articles/elements_of_a_design_pattern/ -- Oleh Kovalchuke Interaction Design is design of time http://www.tangospring.com/IxDtopicWhatIsInteractionDesign.htm 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
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Pattern Tap : Interface Design Inspiration
@Matthew, 1. one way I could see it going is to try define what the design you're highlighting *is* and wrap some patterns around it.. ie: what do you mean by 'Tasty Design'? eg: Pattern Tap could define 'aesthetic patterns' where you describe the problem and solutions in terms of IxD aesthetics ¿IxD Aesthetics? check out Jonas Lowgren's Five things I believe about the aesthetics of Interaction Design http://webzone.k3.mah.se/k3jolo/Material/aesthetics_of_ixd.pdf 2. a second approach i see could be for you to tie Pattern Tap into existing design pattern collections, by adding value from the design implementation inspiration side. eg: Pattern Tap might help fill out the 'examples' that other pattern collections use, and also extend these examples from merely illustrating the IxD pattern to describing different types of successful implementations from a visual and IxD aesthetics perspective. approach #1 is more work than #2 (and more academic.. but hey.. guess what I do for a living ;-) and could possibly grow out of doing #2 first anyway.. (particularly if you crowdsource it) re using the P word... as you get closer to your intended design the distinction between your examples and traditional patterns will diminish. the work is really in how you describe and present the examples, and how they tie into a larger idea of strategies. hope that helps../ cheers jy On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Matthew Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are some suggestions you all might have about how I can tweak the current language (outside of the domain name of course :), to something more fitting? Or where would you suggest I be careful with language I use on the site? Lastly, is there any way that the framework of this site could be used for a more traditional Pattern Library? If so, I'd love to entertain that idea with some help from some of you smart types :), if you're interested! 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
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Pattern Tap : Interface Design Inspiration
@Jared How would you best describe what Pattern Tap showcases? What language would you change or redefine? I'd be interested to see how we can gaurd those terms well, and honor the work of folks like yourself, while hopefully at the same time, offering a bit of expansion to terms like pattern. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Pattern Tap : Interface Design Inspiration
@Jared How would you best describe what Pattern Tap showcases? What language would you change or redefine? I'd be interested to see how we can gaurd those terms well, and honor the work of folks like yourself, while hopefully at the same time, offering a bit of expansion to terms like pattern. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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
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Someone asked me in a meeting last week if I had started to see Twitter conventions seeping into online discussion boards and email lists. MS's use of @Jared is the first time I have seen it on the list - although it's not his correct twitter name. :-) Interest -- Might start another thread - Twitter conventions becoming commonplace in other online mediums - examples? On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 9:10 AM, matthew Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: @Jared How would you best describe what Pattern Tap showcases? What language would you change or redefine? I'd be interested to see how we can gaurd those terms well, and honor the work of folks like yourself, while hopefully at the same time, offering a bit of expansion to terms like pattern. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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 -- ~ will Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems - Will Evans | User Experience Architect tel +1.617.281.1281 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] twitter: https://twitter.com/semanticwill - 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
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Pattern Tap : Interface Design Inspiration
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 9:10 AM, matthew Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: @Jared How would you best describe what Pattern Tap showcases? What language would you change or redefine? I'd be interested to see how we can gaurd those terms well, and honor the work of folks like yourself, while hopefully at the same time, offering a bit of expansion to terms like pattern. Hi Matt, I'm not Jared, but I've been watching this thread with interest. I appreciate what you've done and want to do in terms of helping provide sources of inspiration, but I share others' concern about the extension of the 'pattern' term. I think there is already too much confusion around it and think it'd be better not to extend it to mean 'example', which is what I take away from patterntap. I think what Alexander was trying to get at in his books on patterns is more than this and has a lot to offer the interaction design community that we shouldn't overlook or water down. Again, I think what you're doing is definitely valuable and appreciated; the concern's just about the terminology. --Ambrose 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
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Pattern Tap : Interface Design Inspiration
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Jeremy Yuille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: re 'patterns': I think something like Pattern Tap compliments other resources like http://welie.com or http://ui-patterns.com/ for the reason that it approaches selection from a different angle: 'Tasty Design' ;-) I think you are right, Jeremy. In our approach to building a corporate pattern library, we plan to provide generic pattern description with snippets of code in a wiki, and link the description to the visual live examples of various implementations of the patterns (this visual index is somewhat similar to the PaternTap). The live examples would link back to the detailed pattern descriptions. This looks like a good idea so far, since different examples could utilize several patterns and the other way around. By the way, thanks to Jared Spool for putting together generic pattern description template. Instead of re-inventing the wheel, we simply use the one he has compiled. -- Oleh Kovalchuke Interaction Design is design of time http://www.tangospring.com/IxDtopicWhatIsInteractionDesign.htm 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
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This is a wonderful resource! I will put my pattern-geek hat on for a moment, though, to say that I'm not entirely comfortable with the way the term pattern is sometimes used to mean gallery of examples. Don't get me wrong, I love galleries of examples. They are awesome. -xian- I agree with you, xian. I came across PatternTap today and twittered about it like this: ValeskaUXBoston ... found a collection of interesting interface elements screenshots ~ http://patterntap.com I didn't perceive it as a pattern library per se. ~valeska o'leary 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 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
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Pattern Tap : Interface Design Inspiration
@Christian Interesting issue about semantics. I chose patterntap partly because of availability of domain names, and its snappy sound. I can see your point though. This isn't really a resource for UI engineers and critical thinkers as much as it is for designers. We took away a lot of the initial Wiki like interaction for detailing the focus of a given pattern in favor of a designer buffet approach. The former is still needed, though perhaps its a second iteration of the site? (your second comment is right on - useful and great, though semantics is important and should be addressed) @Dave We are looking/have looked at some ways of adding Suggest a tag suggest an additional collection (for individual images and for the tap on the whole). We didn't want to implement things that might not be useful. Trying to take a small step approach here. Good thoughts though. Send me your ideas in an email if you're willing, or better yet, we have a page set up at http://getsatisfaction.com/patterntap/ (we were using User Voice but its not nearly as complete as the Get Satisfaction stuff Thanks for all the encouragement!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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
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Nice. Could be useful alongside books like Tidwell's designing interfaces from O'Reilly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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
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It is really a great resource Matthew, thank you! I am also sharing a video collection of Interface Design patterns - http://www.vimeo.com/album/17554 Good to check and see patterns in action. Regards, Ivan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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
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On Jul 23, 2008, at 3:27 PM, Christian Crumlish wrote: I also accept that language drifts and even terms of art can change and the success of the pattern meme is going to tend to lead to watering it down, but I'm nonetheless going to try to hold the line on this distinction for now, as I think it's useful. I completely agree with this line of thinking. I think, as a community, it serves us well to be careful of our language. I've been fighting a similar battle with personas versus descriptions- of-people-real-or-otherwise because watering the term down doesn't help its usefulness. I'd like to see more efforts in the community to establish and protect a language we can all use to mean the same things. Jared Jared M. Spool User Interface Engineering 510 Turnpike St., Suite 102, North Andover, MA 01845 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] p: +1 978 327 5561 http://uie.com Blog: http://uie.com/brainsparks 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
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This is a wonderful resource! I will put my pattern-geek hat on for a moment, though, to say that I'm not entirely comfortable with the way the term pattern is sometimes used to mean gallery of examples. Don't get me wrong, I love galleries of examples. They are awesome. Also, I think the individual clusters of images can be called patterns in the sense that they can plausibly be said to depict examples of patterns. What's missing, for me, is the next step of abstracting what they have in common and capturing that in some descriptive form. This may be a language drift thing, though, so maybe I shouting into the wind. -xian- On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Matthew Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought some of you would be interested to see what we've got in the wild for interface design inspiration : http://patterntap.com. -- Christian Crumlish http://xianlandia.com Yahoo! pattern detective http://design.yahoo.com Yahoo! Developer Network evangelist http://open.yahoo.com IA Institute director of technology http://iainstitute.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
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Christian, I agree w/ the language use. You know me ... always the guardian of semantics. ;-) Something the site could add to it though is user input to the different sections in terms of why? and value. I think this would get what Christian is looking for and open it up a bit more. Is there a way to submit your own suggestions? -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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
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Matthew, thanks for putting this out there, it's a really great set of inspiration sources! re 'patterns': I think something like Pattern Tap compliments other resources like http://welie.com or http://ui-patterns.com/ for the reason that it approaches selection from a different angle: 'Tasty Design' ;-) Funnily enough, I'd had a request from a student just a week ago about whether there were any places online that collected visual design examples in the same way that Graphic Design source books have been doing for ages.. none came to mind straight away, so thanks Matthew! btw - does anyone else here have any design driven sources that I could share with my students? Matthew - I'm interested in how you choose designs.. if you have time, it would be awesome if you could dig a bit into 'designerly implementation and analysis' you describe upthread and tell us what kind of criteria you're using to select examples 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
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Also Tom's site/page is a great clearinghouse: http://www.visi.com/~snowfall/InteractionPatterns.html : Andrew Schechterman UX Architect, Medical Psychologist LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewschechterman E-mail: aschechterman at gmail dot com Phone: 1-303-886-2440 : On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Jeremy Yuille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew, thanks for putting this out there, it's a really great set of inspiration sources! re 'patterns': I think something like Pattern Tap compliments other resources like http://welie.com or http://ui-patterns.com/ for the reason that it approaches selection from a different angle: 'Tasty Design' ;-) Funnily enough, I'd had a request from a student just a week ago about whether there were any places online that collected visual design examples in the same way that Graphic Design source books have been doing for ages.. none came to mind straight away, so thanks Matthew! btw - does anyone else here have any design driven sources that I could share with my students? Matthew - I'm interested in how you choose designs.. if you have time, it would be awesome if you could dig a bit into 'designerly implementation and analysis' you describe upthread and tell us what kind of criteria you're using to select examples 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 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
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On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Jeremy Yuille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew, thanks for putting this out there, it's a really great set of inspiration sources! re 'patterns': I think something like Pattern Tap complements other resources like http://welie.com or http://ui-patterns.com/ for the reason that it approaches selection from a different angle: 'Tasty Design' ;-) I totally agree with this! Please don't take my nitpicking on terminology as a criticism of the site and concept. I love it! It's really useful. I also accept that language drifts and even terms of art can change and the success of the pattern meme is going to tend to lead to watering it down, but I'm nonetheless going to try to hold the line on this distinction for now, as I think it's useful. People should also look at factoryjoe's pattern galleries on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/collections/7215761823120/(which he similarly calls design patterns although I think they fall short of that designation for the same reasons discussed above, while still believing they are incredibly useful and great). -x- -- Christian Crumlish http://xianlandia.com Yahoo! pattern detective http://design.yahoo.com Yahoo! Developer Network evangelist http://open.yahoo.com IA Institute director of technology http://iainstitute.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
[IxDA Discuss] Pattern Tap : Interface Design Inspiration
I thought some of you would be interested to see what we've got in the wild for interface design inspiration : http://patterntap.com. Its a great collection of over 800 interface design patterns (and growing while maintaing quality). Web designers will use it for insight into what others are doing and can keep tabs on what they like by creating user sets (very similar to lightboxes) I know that IXDA has a high standard for this sort of thing, and its really not geared toward the science of UX, but toward the designerly implementation and analysis of the designs that are on the web currently Hope you enjoy! Matthew Smith Squared Eye (http://squaredeye.com) 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
