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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: UIZen is a collection of best of the User Interface designs from around the Web.Site showcases Web Application and Backend designs. Why this site ? When you look for inspiration in good design while building a Web Application , CMS or a back end there are no references which you can look back on for inspiration. There are many CSS/Website galleries but they do not solve this problem as designing back ends is very different from designing Websites. This is where UIZen comes in , by showcases good User Interface Designs from around the web so you next Web Application or back end is not only usable but also good looking. If you know of a site about which you would like to share or have some Ideas for UIZen do get in touch.

Elements of Design is a different type of web design showcase focusing on specific aspects of web design. The site focuses on particular components of design such as login forms and site navigation.

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."

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."

Description from the site: This site is an outgrowth of my Master's thesis, completed in December, 2002 at the University of Washington. My interest in continuing my research lead me to launch this site in September of 2003. I also felt that the data I had collected (and plan to collect) would be more accessible in a web-based presentation. I encourage those interested in conducting related research to also refer to my thesis, which can be downloaded at my personal web site www.hpadkisson.com. The data presented on this site are intended to inform design decisions, not dictate them. Common practice does not necessarily equate with best practice-and the relationship between consistency and usability on the Web is remains a lightly researched area. I wrote more on this topic in an article for Boxes and Arrows: Examining the Role of De Facto Standards on the Web. At this time the data on the site are limited to e-commerce, which was the focus of my master's thesis. As one reader has pointed out, there is so much more to the Web. I do hope to eventually expand the data collection beyond e-commerce into other site genres. A goal of this site is to encourage and highlight related empirical research. You'll find throughout the site links to related studies. If you find I've overlooked a relevant study, please suggest a study for inclusion.

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."

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.

Friday, 29 March 2013 Color Dumb ? no probs!! regarding webdesign

another companion site, with more resources and examples, for the seminal book Designing Web Interfaces from Bill Scott and Theresa Neil.

a companion site for the seminal book Designing Web Interfaces from Bill Scott and Theresa Neil.

This collection of articles is useful in researching specific design problems. User Interface Engineering is a leading research, training, and consulting firm specializing in web site and product usability. Jared M. Spool founded the company back in 1988 and has built UIE into the largest organization of its kind in the world. With our in-depth research findings based on user observation, we empower development teams to create usable web sites that increase customer satisfaction and loyalty.

Illustrations from the book Web Form Design by Luke Wroblewski, Wroblewski, Luke. 2008. New York: Rosenfeld Media. www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/webforms/

a good resource of primarily web-based design examples

Accompanies the book "Designing Social Interfaces." This site should interest those who are interested in developing/working with social web applications

A gallery of common web page components such as navigation, grid layouts. This site features more than 30 categories and users are allowed to rate each design featured in the gallery so that they can see what others think about each concept or idea

Reuse, recycle, but don't reinvent the wheel unless necessary. by Brian Christiansen at UI Engineering. Via. This collection captures findings of consistent, unique or interesting interfaces and design flows from across the web.

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.

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."

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.