Other User Experience Design Pattern Libraries
We're doing our best to maintain an exhaustive list of user experienced oriented pattern libraries and related resources online. If you know of any others, let us know!
Pattern Libraries
- Yahoo! Design Pattern Library (this library, for completeness)
- Open Design Patterns (a wiki clone of this library)
- Designing Social Interfaces
- Pattern Language of Group Process
- Designing Web Interfaces (Bill Scott and Theresa Neil's book)
- Patterns in Interaction Design (Martijn van Welie)
- Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design (Jenifer Tidwell's book)
- Search Patterns
- IDEO Patterns
- Common Ground (Jenifer Tidwell's original library)
- User Interface Design Patterns (Sari Laakso)
- The Brighton Usability Pattern Collection
- Open Design Patterns
- Ajax Patterns
- Computer-Mediated Interaction Patterns (associated with Till Schuemmer & Stephan Lukosch's book)
- Visible Area patterns repository
- Little Springs Mobile User Interface Design Patterns
- Information Design Patterns
- Social Visualization Patterns
- UI-Patterns.com
- UI Pattern Factory
- Quince UX Patterns Explorer (requires Silverlight)
- Open Source Pattern Library (Fluid Project, somewhat moribund)
- Moderation Strategies (vandalized, from Wayback machine)
Visual Pattern Collections
- Pattern Tap
- iPhone Pattern Library (a Flickr group)
- Design Patterns (Chris Messina's Flickr collection)
Other Pattern Resources
- History of Patterns
- A Pattern Language for Pattern Writing
- Social Network Anti-patterns (at microformats.org)
- Antipatterns article at UX Matters
- Pattern Writing Checklist
- Pattern Languages in HCI: A Critical Review (Human-Computer Interaction)
- 40+ Helpful Resources on User Interface Design Pattern Libraries (Smashing Magazine)
- Bill Scott's blog (writes patterns and anti-patterns)
- YUI Blog (many entries about Yahoo! patterns)