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From the site: The design patterns concept was first made explicit by architect Christopher Alexander in two books: A Pattern Language and The Timeless Way of Building. Design Patterns by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides introduced design patterns to the field of software engineering where they have been much studied. The form of design patterns takes advantage of the natural tendency of expert designers to think in problem-solution pairs. According to Alexander, "each pattern is a three-part rule, which expresses a relation between a certain context, a problem, and a solution." Designing data graphics may be viewed as a task of user-interface design, and the design patterns for data graphics presented here overlap with pattern collections for user-interface design and data visualization. Among these collections are Jenifer Tidwell's UI Patterns and Techniques, Martijn van Welie's Web Design patterns, and recently published books on The Design of Sites, and A Pattern Language for Web Usability. Barry Wilkins has written his doctoral dissertation on Visualization Patterns.

From the site: "User Interface Design patterns are recurring solutions that solve common design problems. Design patterns are standard reference points for the experienced user interface designer. This site will help you in two ways: You can read insightful design pattern articles and browse screenshot examples."

From the site: "Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design is an intermediate-level book about interface and interaction design, structured as a pattern language. It features real-live examples from desktop applications, web sites, web applications, mobile devices, and everything in between. This site contains excerpts from some of the book's patterns. The book has more, of course -- more introductory material, more patterns, and more examples. Naturally, I'd like you to buy it! But this material has been on the Web for a while, and I'd like to keep it here."

Site that accompanies the book "The Design of Sites." From the site: "Design patterns solve recurring design problems, so you can use pattern solutions to design your sites without reinventing the wheel."

This site centers around a Pattern Browser. An interesting take on a pattern browser from the Interface Design Team of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. This browser provides a rather more technical and interesting set of filters and I like it a lot.

Formerly called the UI Pattern Factory... From the site: "Patternry is a resource for everyone who needs to design or develop user interfaces. It is a collection of Web design patterns which helps people solve common design problems when designing interfaces. Soon it will also be a community where everyone can share, create, and collaborate on design patterns. We are still in beta, so be patient with us."

Although this is no longer maintained, it remains a good resource for IxD design pattern resources. This page contains information about resources related to pattern languages for interaction design (of which user interface design is a subset), and a few links to more general papers that may be of use to interaction designers. I also include some links to organizational design patterns, which I find hard to disentangle from interaction design.

This companion site for Peter Morville's new book focuses solely on Search Patterns. There is also a companion Flickr collection of additional patterns. From the site: "Search is among the most disruptive innovations of our time. It influences what we buy and where we go. It shapes how we learn and what we believe. This provocative and inspiring book explores design patterns that apply across the categories of web, e-commerce, enterprise, desktop, mobile, social, and real time search and discovery. Using colorful illustrations and examples, the authors bring modern information retrieval to life, covering such diverse topics as relevance ranking, faceted navigation, multi-touch, and mixed reality. Search Patterns challenges us to invent the future of discovery while serving as a practical guide to help us make search applications better today."

a wiki that accompanies the great book Ajax Design Patterns. As one would expect, this site focuses on design patterns related to Ajax and web applications. Quite comprehensive and technical documentation of the patterns.

From the site: "Pattern Tap is here to satisfy and encourage the inspiration needs of my interface design peers and peeps. We aspire to be the one stop pattern shop for your next inspiration need."

A nice, comprehensive overview of Design Patterns from 2009 from Smashing Magazine.

A seemingly spottily maintained resource but interesting nevertheless. This site seems to promote the process of learning about and creating pattern libraries. You can find links to the following pattern-related resources: People, Events, Patterns, Publications, Tools and Other Resources

I find this site to be often breathtaking in its breadth and detail. This is how a patterns library should be done...if you have a ton of time, resources and money. Lots and lots of documentation and working examples.

a comprehensive list of links to design patterns resources. Many great links to academic papers and theoretical information on design patterns.

A pattern library that focuses on open-source design patterns (whatever those are). Has categories for Content Management, Information Organization, Input Forms, Navigation. A good resource and interesting site to explore if one is interested in a well-documented project.

This group is created for capturing user interface design trends and patterns NOT decorative patterns. Images not adhering to this description will be removed. Also, screenshots of home pages will be removed if they do not specifically illustrate the use of a user interface.

From the site: UI Patterns is a growing collection of User Interface Design Principles and User Interface Usability Patterns present on web applications and sites today.

Alexander wrote the seminal book "A Pattern Language" in 1977 that promoted "patterns" as an approach in diverse fields, from architecture to city planning to business to design. Remains influential today.

For those interesting in design patterns more specific to coding patterns.

a good place to look for web design patterns. Allows you to create your own collections. One can also search designs by color and vote on particular designs.