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Patterns

Webstock 08: The Age of Frameworks

Many of us are still conditioned to think of design frameworks in terms of grid systems, Swiss graphic design, and rigid corporate identity systems. The problems with these are similar to the problems…

A Pattern Language for Moderation

Clay Shirky on moderation strategies: Social software is the experimental wing of political philsophy, a discipline that doesn't realize it has an experimental wing. We are literally encoding…

Crease Geometry

Origami has expanded far beyond its origins in step by step folding patterns. These Crease Patterns are designed to be one-step transforms from flat paper into the finished shape. Even though the…

XHTML Design Patterns

The key concept that underlies the modern web is the separation of presentation and structure, and recently, there has been a lot of interest in documenting the synthesis of human friendly and…

Software is not made of Bricks

Raganwald dissects the misguided metaphor from a software process perspective. I have come to believe that these kinds of problems are even more prevalent in the web development world than in…

Ajax and UX

Amongst those of the user experience and information architecture persuasion, there seems to be a growing trend that involves taking interesting new technological and interactive…