Patterns

Interaction Design Patterns in Games.

Eelke Folmer has defined a collection of interaction design patterns for computer games. These patterns describe solutions to usability problems typically found in games. This collection is freely accessible on the following
site.

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PLML (pronounced "pellmell"): The Pattern Language Markup Language

The CHI 2003 workshop group is currently creating a markup language for pattern languages in XML - PLML. Here is the current dtd (with some browsers you'll need to save the file and view it with some text-editor).

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Jan Borchers' HCI Design Patterns for Interactive Exhibits

Some examples taken from Jan Borchers' Book A Pattern Approach to Interaction Design and converted into PLML.

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Jenifer Tidwell's Common Ground and updated Pattern Language

Jenifer Tidwell, who also authored the widely known Common Ground HCI Design Pattern Language back in '99, has recently published an updated pattern collection online that is applicable to web design as well as desktop applications and other areas of UI design.

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Martijn van Welie's Design Patterns

Martijn van Welie has a nice site on mainly design patterns with a huge collection of examples.

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Sally Fincher's HCI Pattern-Form Gallery

Sally has set up a collection of styles and formats used for HCI patterns, represented by pattern examples from various authors.

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Michael Mahemoff's Pattern Languages for Usability

Michael's research aimed to constrain the scope of pattern languages in order to bring out the tightly-connected "language" quality. The example pattern languages cover (a) internationalisation/culture, (b)safety-critical usability, and (c) MVC (Model-View-Controller) combined with generic tasks.