User Interface Design Patterns

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