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a blog entry that discusses some great UI pattern resources...current January 2008, but good overview nevertheless.

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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."

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."

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.

A site maintained by Experience Designer Jason Robb. UI Scraps catalogs, good, bad, and notable interface designs. This site features critiques of submission forms and praises for other good designs.

This is a great resource that I think it newish in late 2010. Concentrated on search and discovery...or as the site itself says "...describes principled ways to solve common user interface design problems related to search, faceted navigation, and discovery..."

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.

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.

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

"PSDDD a collection of Dribbble PSD Resources"

a quite interesting and ambitious take on a pattern library. There is a "pro" paid version of this but the free access seems instructive for most needs. There are some extensive, recent changes that I have yet not had the opportunity to explore.

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."

a collection meant to accompany Morville's book "Search 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."

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.

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."

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."

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.