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Some Web Patterns Posts.
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iOS UI patterns
Common design patterns for iPhone apps
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Conniving UI patterns
Dark Patterns catalogues interfaces intentionally design to make you do the wrong thing
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Design patterns for Android
Seven patterns for common UI behaviors on Google's mobile platform
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Interactive sketching notation
How to sketch out event-based user actions
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Five-star rating systems fail
YouTube shows using five stars to rate something is three too many
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Design pattern collection
A Flicker-based collection of consistent, unique or interesting interfaces and design flows
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Search Patterns
Peter Morville's collection of search examples, patterns, and anti-patterns
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The Elements of Social Architecture
The incomparable Christina Wodtke outlines the key patterns for creating successful online communities
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Guardian's Oscar interactive
Simple, dull, but a good pattern to examine
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Information design patterns
Based on a beautifully crafted master thesis, this is a brilliant repository of patterns
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Patterns for reputation systems
Yeahoo has added nine reputation patterns to its social-design related patterns offering
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An Overview of the Best Practices
Looking at the key best practices emerging in the Web design industry.
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Thank Hotwired, Saila suggests
Although my first thought was to Twitter this (apparently the frequency for which I do that is starting to make cats salivate), but it deserved more than 140 characters. That being said, had it been a little tweet it would have said this:
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The history of Amazon-ian tabs
A new design suggest Amazon might be going back to the past to tame its tabs.
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Doing tabs right
Thirteen guidelines on how to use tabbed navigation.
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Visual vocabulary for IA
Includes templates for Visio, OmniGraffle, and OpenOffice
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Yahoo! Design Pattern Library
Nice patterns established by Yahoo!
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WebPatterns
John Allsop continues his noble efforts to bring patterns to the wild Web.
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Saila Suggests
The Web development industry’s best practices are built on top of of Web standards, are informed by human-centered design, and honed through nearly a decade of trial and error. This series will begin cataloguing and explaining how to put these best practices into use, and apply them to on your own Web site.
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