Re: Pattern Tap : Interface Design Inspiration

This is a wonderful resource!
I will put my pattern-geek hat on for a moment, though, to say that I'm not
entirely comfortable with the way the term pattern is sometimes used to mean
"gallery of examples." Don't get me wrong, I love galleries of examples.
They are awesome.

Also, I think the individual clusters of images can be called patterns in
the sense that they can plausibly be said to depict examples of patterns.

What's missing, for me, is the next step of abstracting what they have in
common and capturing that in some descriptive form.

This may be a language drift thing, though, so maybe I shouting into the
wind.

-xian-



On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Matthew Smith <matthew@...>
wrote:

> I thought some of  you would be interested to see what we've got in the
> wild for interface design inspiration : http://patterntap.com.
>
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