Here’s a site with some cool IA patterns.
Nice One
If you liked that, there’s more at Yahoo’s Design Pattern Library.
This link is from Information Aesthetics… aaand there’s more like this on Ethan Eismann’s blog who is incidentally an Adobe Thermo Developer.
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The State pattern in Flex – combining view states with logical states
by Mims H Wright
If you’ve used Flex, you’ve no doubt (er, hopefully) been using View States (AKA <mx:State>) to change the look of your RIA as it progresses through different situations of use. While this is immeasurably useful, it does not necessarily qualify as an implementation of the State Design Pattern which allows you to change not only how a component looks but how it functions as well.
(for more on design patterns, read my favorite book Head first design patterns).
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Leopard 10.5 supports 512 pixel icons
by Mims H Wright
While playing around with Icon Composer in the newest version of XCode Tools for I noticed that Leopard now supports 512×512 pixel icons – much larger than the older 128×128 pixel icons. I assume this has to do with the Cover Flow view for the Finder which displays icons much larger than the other views. Sure enough, Apple have redesigned all their icons for the new format and they look gorgeous. I took some screen grabs of my favourites. Click the thumbnails to see the details. Notice the small text in the iTunes and Dictionary icons and the textures on the truck and the guitar. Hawt!
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Dictionary
Garage Band
iTunes
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Napkintop web design for maximum impact
by Mims H Wright
This link is an oldie but a goodie. It has helped me remember to KISS countless times and to focus on the needs of users when designing sites. Check it out.
An Introduction to Using Patterns in Web Design [37 Signals]
