On Oct 18, 2007, at 5:52 AM, Jonas Löwgren wrote: > ... I tend to find more potential in the notion of inspirational > patterns. ... > In order to Create, the designer needs a repertoire of formats or > exemplars that he/she matches against the situation at hand. A broad > repertoire means better chances of coming up with ideas, many ideas, > varied ideas.... designers can extend their > repertoires by studying the inspirational patterns and thus Create > better.
Yes! This is pretty much what I meant when I described patterns as "languages" earlier in this thread. You don't open a dictionary every time you want to say something with words -- you just say it because you are presumably literate in the verbal or written language. Likewise for interaction design patterns -- you become literate in the full vocabulary of the design pattern language, you immerse yourself in the "literature" (the body of work, for example the web), and then when you sit down to design most of your challenge is similar to the challenge of being a writer: good articulation of a good idea. -Cf Christopher Fahey ____________________________ Behavior biz: http://www.behaviordesign.com me: http://www.graphpaper.com ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
