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.
Glimpse.com has a nice feature that visualizes the available product distribution in a price range to refine the search. When adjusting the slider, a pop-up immediately indicates an estimated number of remaining products for the refined price range. (See Example)
Windows 7 now visualizes progress right in the system tray even when the window is minimized. I like it!
Mozilla just put up a new website that let’s users discover more add-ons for Firefox. It’s an interesting way of helping users to identify extensions that are of interest to them by relating the suggestions to persona-style categories like these:
I joined the SoCHI student group for Human-Computer Interaction just before the summer and since i came back from my internship this summer at Yahoo! we have had quite a few events this semester. One of the ideas we had was to facilitate Design Jams that would encourage students to get together to apply their skills to real life problems. We held two Design Jams sponsored by Mozilla to brainstorm and prototype ideas and designs for the browser of the future inspired by their Concept Series. We bloged about the fantastic results on our website and today we were featured on the Mozilla Labs Blog.
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