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Yahoo! Developer Network Blog

August 20, 2009

Design Patterns, Now More Open and Social

I am delighted to be able to announce today that we are relaunching the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library with ten new patterns, a reorganized category-structure, cleaner URLs for easier bookmarking, and much, much more.

OK, maybe just a little bit more. The ten newest patterns are all in the Social category, and they're just the tip of the iceberg of a major set of patterns emerging from the Social Design Patterns project I've been working on for more than two years. (A Yahoo! Press book on the same topic is coming from O'Reilly in September.)

We've got more rich interaction patterns on their way as well. Perhaps more important than our current pattern pipeline is that we are moving to a much more open pattern review and revision process: We've added a new rating level for patterns called "Beta," and we will use it to publish unfinished patterns and request comments on them from the larger community. The accordion pattern will be the first guinea pig for this process, as we already published a survey through the YUI blog to solicit community input.

We've built out more forums and integrated them more tightly with the relevant pattern categories, and we've added Buzz and Delicious buttons and links to each pattern to enable easier saving, sharing, and favoriting (and to give us more insight into the most useful and popular patterns).

In reorganizing the site navigation we've built up the sections that complement the pattern collection itself with information about the library, about patterns in general, and about peer libraries and related resources.

Finally, we've got three new versions of the stencil kit available now (Fireworks, Axure, and 8 Shapes Unify) and we're prioritizing requests from the community for future versions of the kit.

Enjoy, let us know what you think, and subscribe to this blog feed for updates.

Christian Crumlish
Pattern Recognizer
Twitter: @mediajunkie

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Comments

Hi Christian.
Thanks for your great work.

I found my name in this page by chance. :)
http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/social/core/yourvmy.html

Good Luck!

Posted by: Jinho Jung at August 21, 2009 1:19 PM

Good eye! (Especially since no text index would have caught that.) It's kind of fun showing cameos of friends in screenshot examples.

Thanks for all *your* great work for YDN Korea!

Posted by: xian at August 21, 2009 11:27 PM

Im a huge stickler on backgrounds and lines of separation. I don't like to let everything jumble on the page.

Posted by: Tampa Web Design at August 31, 2009 12:26 PM

This is great! Thanks and keep up with it. It's very helpful.

Posted by: Tanika at September 2, 2009 4:06 AM

I really like the redesigned pattern library, and your plans about beta patterns sounds good too. But one thing is missing from the old library - Creative Commons-licence. Or at least I can't find the licence anywhere. Did you decide to quit using it? If so, why?

Posted by: Just asking at September 22, 2009 6:01 AM

Hey, did you know the GoF book, Design Patterns is about to have a big birthday? http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0201633612

The classic was born October 23, 1994, in Portland, OR, and weighed in at 1.4 lbs and @9.5" long. Its first home was at the Portland Convention Center but this one has live all over the world since.

Happy 15th GoF!!

Posted by: John at October 20, 2009 10:09 AM