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User Interface Design Patterns

Wednesday, October 06, 2004

Interface design patterns help designers solve common interface problems. Unlike templates, they don't attempt to set standards for an entire web page--they concentrate on just one aspect of a page. 20 or 30 design patterns for an intranet is probably 10 times more useful than 20 or 30 templates.

Web design patterns: Great examples on a wide range of interface issues
Jenifer Tidewell's site: Solutions to common web interface problems
Interaction Patterns in User Interfaces (PDF): White paper with solutions to common user challenges with Windows applications

About the Author

I'm Chris McGrath, an intranet consultant in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. I've been working on intranets since 1997, and on plain ol' web sites for even longer. I run One Intranets, the firm that co-created ThoughtFarmer -- an enterprise collaboration platform for Windows-based intranets.