Design Patterns have a long tradition. The architect Christopher Alexander developed them between 1977 and 1979. Nearly ten years later the Switzer computer scientist Erich Gamma rediscovered them during his study at the University of Zurich. Later Erich Gamma moved to the USA where he wrote the Design Pattern bible “Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software” together with Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides.
Now, another 20 years there are not only design patterns for architectural tasks available, but also for design tasks. During my work I needed some “best practice” of user input forms. Thereby I’ve done a little research. And I was surprised to see how many UI Design Pattern libraries are available at present. OK, I only found 3 libraries. But each library contains a huge variety of UI Design Patterns. And here they are:
I guess its alway a click worth to get an impression how others create their designs. For me that has nothing to do with copy and paste shit. It’s more like creating a standard by using well know and experienced elements. And even when color comes into play it’s your own design again. Therefore … just go for it!
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