On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 9:10 AM, matthew Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> @Jared > How would you best describe what Pattern Tap showcases? What language > would you change or redefine? I'd be interested to see how we can > gaurd those terms well, and honor the work of folks like yourself, > while hopefully at the same time, offering a bit of expansion to > terms like "pattern". Hi Matt, I'm not Jared, but I've been watching this thread with interest. I appreciate what you've done and want to do in terms of helping provide sources of inspiration, but I share others' concern about the extension of the 'pattern' term. I think there is already too much confusion around it and think it'd be better not to extend it to mean 'example', which is what I take away from patterntap. I think what Alexander was trying to get at in his books on patterns is more than this and has a lot to offer the interaction design community that we shouldn't overlook or water down. Again, I think what you're doing is definitely valuable and appreciated; the concern's just about the terminology. --Ambrose ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
