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Added by Marc Brierley, last edited by will trillich on Jul 23, 2007  (view change)

UI Design Patterns

A working group effort within the UI Discussion Group.

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Meetings have been merged with the User Interaction Discussion Group Meetings

With Yahoo! making their Yahoo! Design Pattern Libraryopen under the Creative Commons license, the concept using an "optimal solution to a common problem within a specific context" - a design pattern - has come front-and-center to the UI world. The potential benefits of a design patterns library over a style guide are:

  • rationale, history and versions for common design solutions are captured in each pattern
  • easier communication between designers and developers by using the common language of "patterns" (esp. if each design pattern has a corresponding JSF tag)
  • alternates can be added to patterns rather than "breaking" the style guide

The hope is that a cross-discipline working group will form to glean UI design solutions from the current style and outside resources (e.g. Yahoo!'s design pattern library), as well as build new components and idioms specific to learning technologies, in order to create this library. Join us in discussion how a working group could be formed around this effort!

Friday, July 13, 2007

At the June 2007 Sakai conference in Amsterdam, we decided to call the Sakai UI Design Patterns Library "open for business." Though not finished, the library has a good set of patterns related to web form interaction and is worthy of Sakai community usage. So, we are essentially calling the pattern library, "Alive!" but it will continue to grow and evolve.

If you want to contribute to this effort, please join us on one of the Sakai UI DG phone meetings or add yourself to our mailing list by joining the Sakai project site. We review new patterns and make plans for future ones.

If you missed the conference, Marc Brierley's Design Patterns WG Update is now available on the web. We had a great showing of user experience related talks especially at the U-Camp. Please take a look and consider joining us for the next conference in Newport Beach, California!

Posted at Jul 13, 2007 by Marc Brierley | 0 comments
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