{"id":121,"date":"2006-02-14T22:28:30","date_gmt":"2006-02-14T21:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.leapfrog.nl\/archives\/2006\/02\/14\/thinking-about-ixd-patterns\/"},"modified":"2008-07-21T21:50:25","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T19:50:25","slug":"thinking-about-ixd-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/14\/thinking-about-ixd-patterns\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking about IxD patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having just posted about a new pattern library; my mind has been occupied a bit by the role of patterns in design. I\u2019ve noticed that for a lot of <acronym title=\"Interaction Design\">IxD<\/acronym> problems, I tend to first try to tackle the issue myself. Then, I usually refer to some examples and \/ or patterns, to see if I\u2019ve missed any obvious caveats. After that, I usually fine-tune the solution. What I like about patterns is that they give a clear outline of the most common way of handling a given problem. I do think that they\u2019ll never be a replacement for some genuine inspired design \u2013 stuff that no one has come up with before. I doubt we\u2019ll ever see the day when interaction designers will be replaced by a huge pattern library\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having just posted about a new pattern library; my mind has been occupied a bit by the role of patterns in design. I\u2019ve noticed that for a lot of IxD problems, I tend to first try to tackle the issue myself. Then, I usually refer to some examples and \/ or patterns, to see if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/14\/thinking-about-ixd-patterns\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thinking about IxD patterns<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[625],"tags":[10,11,7],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-ixd","tag-interaction-design","tag-patterns"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":881,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}