Last summer i worked at Yahoo! as an interaction design intern and my major summer project was to design the new Information Architecture for the Pattern Library. Today the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library was relaunched with a new face – more open and social. It includes 10 new Social Patterns, a reorganized category-structure, cleaner URLs for easier bookmarking and much more.
Come and check it out at http://design.yahoo.com
Check out Quince a new ux pattern explorer by Infragistics.
There are no good tools that make these patterns usable, and there isn’t much community to speak of around them. We at Infragistics thought that we could help and fill the gap – helping to make UX design patterns more findable, more discoverable, more usable, and, we hope, more communal and social.
As part of my summer internship at Yahoo! i have been involved in the publication of patterns, the blog post “What’s So Social about Sign-in?” references my first contribution.
[Found via yuiblog.com]
Part of my current Job at Yahoo is to work on the redesign of the Pattern Library. This is a great resource for designers and web developers where interaction design patterns are illustrated that exist on the web. Looking beyond just our library there are other libraries on the web that attempt to build similar collections. It seems there are two categories of libraries emerging: Galleries and Libraries.
Galleries provide a broad overview using visual examples for patterns on the web.
Libraries go further and try to describe the interaction and suggest solutions.
In addition there are Collections that identify implementation patterns
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