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