Design Patterns

Less than 5 minute presentation to introduce concept of design patterns to co-workers and show our start on implementing them.

Transcript

1. Design Patterns
2. You use design patterns all the time. They are common solutions to problems.
3. E X A M P L E D E S I G N P A T T E R N Problem: There is too much to fit on one page of a website. Solution: Tabs
4. E X A M P L E D E S I G N P A T T E R N Solution: Dropdown Menus Problem: There is lots of navigation or actions you need to offer users, but can’t dedicate the screen space to show all of them at once (or it would be too overwhelming).
5. button search form progress bar E X A M P L E D E S I G N P A T T E R N collection
6. Design patterns are awesome. Here’s why.
7. They are good for users. 1 There is no confusion. They don’t have to “learn” anything.
8. Gosh, how am I going to get pass this solid wooden barrier?
9. Very high chance users have used tabs before. If not, they are easy to learn. All the affordances are there: rollover, pointer cursor, white-to-white, look like real tabs
10. Even if a user has to learn, they only need to do it once. For example, once you’ve interacted with an accordion in CREATE you’ll know how to use it in ANALYZE. “Accordion”
11. They are good for development. 2 Speeds up development. Nobody repeats each other’s work. Ease of future updates.
12. Analyze Create NEW THING!!1 Homepage
13. Rock ‘n’ Roll http://chriscoyier.github.com/SurveyMonkey-Design-Patterns/