A while ago I discovered the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library, but I didn’t really look into it (it was one of those put-on-the-shelf-for-future-reference things). Then I found Functioning Form, which is interviewing various interface designers right now. From there I checked the Yahoo library out again, and also found Jenifer Tidwell’s Designing Interfaces book and Martin van Welie’s UI Patterns and Techniques. This is really cool stuff — enough so that I’m going to read through it all as soon as I can, because I can already tell that it’s going to be extremely useful in designing Beyond. (For example, the collapse transition is a good way to keep information accessible but not in the way.) I’m excited. And schoolwork suffers another blow. :)
On a side note, I can’t wait till my library gets a copy of Edward Tufte’s new book, Beautiful Evidence. You can read the chapter on sparklines on his webboard.
[tags]design patterns, Edward Tufte[/tags]
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