Will Evans inteviews Erin Malone, Christian Crumlish, and Lucas Pettinati to talk about design patterns, pattern libraries, styleguides, and innovation.
“patterns focus innovation and creativity on the leading edge of the problem: the unsolved part.” –Christian Crumlish
This is an interesting read, and it is part of a broader conversation about patterns that is not finished. The story of how we use Pattern Languages to help us design and build new things is an ongoing story. I think a most significant development of late is the movement to publish online, open pattern collections on the web. The general consensus in this interview is in agreement with this idea. As Christian Crumlish puts it: ” Patterns are a bit like tamagotchi. If you don’t keep tending them they die, and they’re social in the sense that they thrive and become more refined and useful and subtle the more people are able to engage with them.” Walking their talk, Erin, Christian and Lucas have put up a wiki encouraging others to collaborate on their new book, that will include a collection of social interfaces design patterns.
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