You use design
patterns all the time.
They are common solutions to problems.
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E X A M P L E D E S I G N P A T T E R N
Problem: There is too much to fit on one page of a website.
Solution:
Tabs
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E X A M P L E D E S I G N P A T T E R N
Solution:
Dropdown Menus
Problem: There is lots of navigation or actions you
need to offer users, but can’t dedicate the
screen space to show all of them at once
(or it would be too overwhelming).
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button
search form
progress bar
E X A M P L E D E S I G N P A T T E R N
collection
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Design patterns
are awesome.
Here’s why.
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They are good
for users.
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There is no confusion.
They don’t have to “learn” anything.
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Gosh, how am I going
to get pass this solid
wooden barrier?
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Very high chance users have
used tabs before.
If not, they are easy to learn.
All the affordances are there:
rollover, pointer cursor, white-to-white, look like real tabs
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Even if a user has to learn,
they only need to do it once.
For example, once you’ve
interacted with an accordion
in CREATE you’ll know how
to use it in ANALYZE.
“Accordion”
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They are good
for development.
2
Speeds up development.
Nobody repeats each other’s work.
Ease of future updates.
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Analyze Create
NEW
THING!!1
Homepage
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Rock ‘n’ Roll
http://chriscoyier.github.com/SurveyMonkey-Design-Patterns/