I stumbled across a site that has a few user interface design patterns – something I had not seen before, but which seems like a great idea. I did a search, and a couple of sites containing web-based patterns, including Yahoo’s design pattern library, welie.com and ui-patterns.com. The search also turned up an O’Reilly book by Jenifer Tidwell called Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design that I may have to add to my library.
On a semi-related note, I found that Joel on Software has the first few chapters of User Interface Design for Programmers online:
- Chapter 1: Controlling Your Environment Makes You Happy
- Chapter 2: Figuring Out What They Expected
- Chapter 3: Choices
- Chapter 4: Affordances and Metaphors
- Chapter 5: Consistency and Other Hobgoblins
- Chapter 6: Designing for People Who Have Better Things To Do With Their Lives
- Chapter 7: Designing for People Who Have Better Things To Do With Their Lives, Part Two
- Chapter 8: Designing for People Who Have Better Things To Do With Their Lives, Part Three
- Chapter 9: The Process of Designing a Product
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