Resources: Patterns

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Going deeper with Patterns

Excerpts from A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction, a 1977 book that defines a ‘pattern language’ for architecture and urban design. The authors define a design pattern as “the re-usable form of a solution to a design problem’. This work went on to be hugely influential in other fields, including computer science and interaction design.

PDF of a classic computer science book from 1994. The authors took inspiration from A Pattern Language

A resource that explains many of these object-oriented programming patterns in Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (including examples in code)

Modern design systems like the gov.uk styles include patterns alongside other elements (e.g. components, styles, guidelines, etc)

Material UI is an implementation of Google’s material design in a series of React components. A good example of the difference between patterns and components. Components (like the ones in this library) are already designed and built, ready to be implemented. Patterns are more abstract than this.

Explore Deceptive Patterns

This website (formerly darkpatterns.org) was started in 2010 by Harry Brignull. It addresses the growing issue of deceptive design practices in the digital world.

Sample chapters from Harry Brignull’s 2023 book about Deceptive Patterns

FTC proposing regulation against one of the most common dark patterns (’hard to cancel’, AKA the ‘Roach Motel’)

Guidelines from the European Data Protection Board. Another good example of how regulators are starting to target deceptive patterns with further legislation

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