Posts in the Design Patterns category

There were 24 patterns in the public version of the library when I took over. Today there are 59 — all shared with a Creative Commons license.

When I first started curating the Pattern Library, I put “tags” near the top of my list of user interaction patterns to investigate. By that time, Yahoo! had already acquired several pioneers in the tagging realm, Flickr and Delicious, and there were some subtle distinctions in how they implemented the experience.

In London and again in Berlin I was asked the perennial question about whether the use of design patterns stifles innovation. My traditional answer, “No. Now shut up and do your wireframes!” got a laugh in both settings.

We just published two new social patterns in a new category, called Presence (under People), in the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library. The two patterns are Availability and Updates. The Design Pattern Library is a collection of guidelines for the design of online interactions that can aid decision-making and guide the work of web developers and [...]

Designing Social Interfaces, by Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone, is the latest title from Yahoo! Press, a publishing partnership between Yahoo! and O’Reilly Media.

Today, we are relaunching the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library with ten new patterns, a reorganized category-structure, cleaner URLs for easier bookmarking, and much, much more.

We are pleased to announce that on June 18-19, Yahoo! is sponsoring our first VoCamp event at our main campus in Sunnyvale, CA. What is VoCamp? As the name indicates, VoCamp is influenced by BarCamp, although VoCamp’s emphasis is tilted towards hands-on technical work and practical output. VoCamp provides a two day forum for vocabulary [...]

The spring conference season is about to begin, and Christian Crumlish, Yahoo!’s pattern detective, has a full schedule of appearances on tap for the next few months, talking and teaching about design patterns, user experience, and the Yahoo! Press book he’s co-authoring on design for the social web.

Yahoo! this week released a design stencil kit to help designers quickly create mockups for specifications and user testing. Stencil objects have specific meaning and can be incorporated into a design to symbolize a specific kind of module, interaction, or even aesthetic.

Back in April, I gave a five-minute talk to a barful of Web 2.0 conference attendees in San Francisco. An audience member recorded me, and posted it to YouTube.

In my Ignite talk, I discuss some of the social design patterns (and antipatterns) that I’ve been gathering as curator of the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library. You can hear the whole talk, including facetious arena-rock shout-out at the beginning, synched up with the slides, or watch the video.