User Interface Patterns

Standardization and quality are the buzzwords of IT today. This applies to UI design too which is predominantly right brain driven by intuition and aesthetics. But things are changing. Usability and User experience are changing the myths of UI design. Patterns have been there for quite sometime in the industries like manufacturing, architecture etc., Its hightime it sets its foot into IT. Sun Microsytems was the pioneer to define and include patterns as standards for programming and coding. Now user experience designers are starting to follow the path and are more keen to include patterns into their mainstream to allow people to have a lucid experience. Enough said: Follow these links to know more about UI patterns and their implementations This should be wealth of information for the new age web designers and user interface architects. 1. http://time-tripper.com/uipatterns/index.php?page=About_Patterns 2. http://www.welie.com/patterns/ 3. http://widget.eleganthack.com/ More to come on this... have a nice day ciao