All Design Patterns
Here's an alphabetical listing of all 59 patterns in the library today.
As always, we welcome your feedback on these patterns as well as any stories you might like to share with us about how you've applied them to real-world design projects.
A person wants to subscribe to the content of another person and read it in an environment of their own choosing.
The user needs the ability to look up information alphabetically within a large data set.
The designer needs to communicate that an object is changing its spatial relationship within the page.
A product or website needs to present ratings and reviews with a variety of informational elements.
The user needs to enter an item into a text box which could ambiguous or hard to remember and therefore has the potential to be mis-typed.
Provide a way for a user to display to other people (either the public, or their contacts, depending on the rules of the system) when they are available for contact and when not.
User needs to navigate potentially large quantities of information efficiently, without becoming lost.
Designer wants to make a previously dimmed object a point of focus by making the object bright again.
User wants to find or submit a particular piece of information based on a date or between a date range.
An object is no longer of primary importance, but must remain available in a smaller form.
Some participants in communities respond to opportunities to collect and display awards.
The designer needs to match the reputation system to the community's degree of competitiveness.
Designer wants to communicate that a new view of an object is replacing the previous view.
The user needs needs to re-arrange the layout of modules on a web page directly with the mouse.
Designer needs to indicate valid candidate drop sites during a drag and drop operation.
Designer needs to show the detail of an object in its context or reveal a previously collapsed object.
Designer needs to communicate that an object is being added to the page or application.
Designer needs to cue the user about what will happen when the mouse is clicked on the hovered object.
The user sends an invitation to a friend or group of friends to have them join in a site experience.
The user needs to view data items from a potentially large set of sorted data that will not be easy to display within a single page.
In highly competitive communities, users may want to know who are the very best performers in a category or overall.
The user needs to navigate through one or more stacked panes of content without refreshing the page.
Participants in a community need some way to gauge their own personal development within that community.
The user needs to navigate through a site to locate content and features and have clear indication of their current location in the site.
Participants in a community need some way to gauge how far they've progressed within that community.
For consistent use of common page elements, page width, division of space, ad usage and code base.
User needs to know at where they are in a multi-screen process (such as purchase or set-up).
A user wants to quickly leave their opinion on an object, with minimal interruption to any other task flow they are involved in.
A user needs to know what public identity she is participating under when creating content.
The user needs to view a set of search results ranked by relevance that is too large to easily display within a single page.
Designer wants to show that an object has been removed from a list of objects.
A user with an account but who is not currently signed in wants to participate by contributing something.
The designer wants to bring new content into the page and would like to communicate the additional content's relationship with other items on the page.
Designer needs to call attention to where a data value or content has changed within the interface.
A user wants to attach their own keyword or set of keywords to an object for organization and later retrieval.
With sufficient tags in a system it becomes possible to present the most popular tags as a browsing aid.
Designer needs to cue the user about what will happen if they click the mouse on the hovered object.
Participants in some communities welcome the challenge of striving to enter the top tier of competitors.
Provide people with mini-stories about what their connections and others are doing on the net. People can also consume mini-stories on topics they are interested in.
A user needs to get more information about another participant in an online community without interrupting his or her current task.
User wants to promote a particular piece of content in a community pool of submissions.
User wants to share her opinion with others about an object (place, person, thing) in greater detail than a simple rating.
Labeling stuff with "Your" instead reinforces the conversational dialogue. It is how another human being might address you when talking about your stuff.
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