Design Pattern Resources

UI Design Pattern Libraries

• Welie Design Patterns
• Tidwell Design Patterns
• Yahoo Design Patterns
• Berkeley Web Patterns Project
• Open Design Patterns
• Open Design Patterns (This is a different site from the one above)
• Information Design Patterns
• Peter Morville's Search Patterns
• AjaxPatterns
• Design of Sites Pattern Browser (registration required)
• Sakai Design Patterns Library
• Sakai Design Patterns ideas
• User Interface Design Patterns
• UI-Patterns.com
• Oracle Browser Look and Feel Resources
• Hypermedia Design Patterns Repository
• The Brighton Usability Pattern Collection
• The Pattern Language Network

UI Design Pattern Screenshot Collections

• PatternTap
• factoryjoe's (Chris Messina's) Design Patterns on Flickr
• Matthias Wagler's UI Design Patterns on Flickr

Other Design Pattern Resources

• Implementing a Pattern Library in the Real World: A Yahoo! Case Study pdf html add'l resources
• PLML (Pattern Language Markup Language)
• UC Berkeley's Web Patterns Library group's "Comparative Analysis of Collections"
• The Pattern Gallery - includes history and examples of pattern libraries
• Discussion of Design Patterns & Libraries on IxDA's mailing list
• The Interaction Design Patterns Page - includes info on Papers About Pattern Languages for Interaction Design, Patterns and Pattern Languages for Interaction Design, How to Write Patterns
• WebPatterns.org
• processes + patterns: best practices on steriods by Peter Boersma
• The encyclopedia entry on Interaction Design Patterns on Interaction-Design.org
• Open Directory: Patterns & Anti-Patterns
• HCIPatterns.org - includes People, Events, Patterns, Publications, Tools
• Interaction design pattern Wikipedia page
• Yahoo! UI Pattern Authors Yahoo! group/mailing list
• Summary of A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander
• Architypes.net's Pattern Index
• Patterns and Software: Essential Concepts and Terminology