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Tammie Lister
September 03, 2015
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Thinking in patterns
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Tammie Lister
September 03, 2015
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THINKING IN PATTERNS
Atomic Style Guide Component Pattern Library
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A successful person isn't necessarily be er than her less
successful peers at solving problems; her pa ern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving. - RAY KURZWEIL
DESIGN
To work our way towards a shared language once again,
we must first learn how to discover pa erns which are deep, and capable of generating life. - CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER
PATTERNS
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ui-pa erns.com/pa erns
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PATTERN ANALYSIS
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Everything should begin with research
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PATTERN LIBRARY?
Speed
Iteration
Consistency
we define our design in a single location and use
a system to cascade it down to all platforms. We call it our Single Source of Truth. - LIVING DESIGN SYSTEMS @SALES FORCE
Understanding
THEME pa ern library
Pa ern library : WITHOUT DESIGN Style guide : WITH
DESIGN
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not a design process. It’s manufacturing. It’s a cupcake machine
churning out identical cakes with different icing. But they all taste the same. - MARK BOULTON
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= RJ : NYC Lego Street Art
Colville -Anderson
Colville -Anderson Eirik Newth
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The Art of the Brick Expo
Without foundations, there can be no fashion. - CHRISTIAN DIOR
Always leave your library OPEN
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Tammie Lister @karmatosed THANKS, ANY QUESTIONS?
Resources http://patternlab.io/resources.html http://clearleft.com/thinks/165 http://ui-patterns.com/ http://styleguides.io https://medium.com/@bradhaynes/designing-products-that-scale- c8f3001f709b http://markboulton.co.uk/journal/design-abstraction-escalation
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