Luís Soares — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:44:35 GMT

More pattern sites:

http://quince.infragistics.com – web/desktop patterns, interesting as a navigation system for pattern catalog
http://ui-patterns.com/patterns – web patterns repository – fixed set of patterns
http://uipatternfactory.com – web patterns repository – patterns are being added frequently
http://interface.fh-potsdam.de/infodesignpatterns/pattern… – not for GUI design; it’s more for presentation of information

Luís Soares — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:57:23 GMT

Juan Lanus, it’s true that is hard to bear in mind all the patterns, but there are other determinant factors. The used media, the publicity given to the catalog, the provided examples (and counter-examples), the live code, the offered ways to search/start, etc. An example of a different way to start: instead of organizing your catalog through an organized pattern list – the solutions, you could organize them by problems – when the designer/developer is faced with a problem, he more easily matches it with another problems (listed in the catalog) rather than with the solutions. Example: instead of having the pattern “Input Feedback” under “Forms” one could have it under”, “Providing Feedback” (because the problem is to “how provide feedback”; the problem is not “forms”).

Boxes and Arrows: Comments by Luís Soares