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March 10th, 2006

On Patterns

by Joshua Porter  |   1 Comment  |  shortlink: http://bokardo.com/p/377

Clay Shirky via Nat Torkington:

“We are literally encoding the principles of freedom of speech and freedom of expression in our tools.”

I hope he’s right. It sometimes feels like we should be, but aren’t.

Clay’s pattern library is interesting, too, following closely on the heels of the Yahoo Design Pattern Library.

The interesting difference between the pattern libraries is that Yahoo’s is a library of interface elements, while Clay and Co’s is made up of social elements modeled in an interface. Both really great tools for discussion/inspection.

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1.  Mike 11:19am, Wed 19th, 2006

Once I saw this one.
Apparently, Yahoo has a new Design Pattern Library over on their Developer Network website. JavaScript Source code and examples are available for several common UI design patterns including the following:

Autocomplete
Breadcrumbs
Drag and Drop Modules
Module Tabs
Navigation Tabs
Object Pagination
Search Pagination
Rating an Object
Writing a Review

Some of these are really cool. I especially like the drag and drop module as this is something I’ve been looking to do in a portal application we have. It will be interesting to see how the library develops as more people start contributing.