There are recurring patterns in the way humans construct things, whether it is a building or a Web site. If designers can identify and understand those patterns, they can use that knowledge to ...

"Service Design Patterns" catalogs design patterns that cover the entire lifecycle of web services. InfoQ talked to Rob Daigneau regarding various topics related to the core idea behind the book.

From that perspective, the Pattern Library is a lovely little resource with some colorful, attractive, and whimsical tiles from some of the web’s best designers.

When we pulled up this little presentation by Harry Brignull on "Dark Patterns" in UI design we assumed we'd be seeing some new nefarious techniques that designers were just happening upon ...

The Web Foundation ‘s Tech Policy Design Lab is working on an interesting-looking project to counter deceptive design — aka dark patterns* — with the goal of producing a portfolio of UX and ...

Ryan Boudreaux reviews the design principle of alignment with some samples and tools. Alignment is the third part of the series on “Effective design principles for web designers.” The first ...

This article, an excerpt from Foundations of JSP Design Patterns (Apress, 2004), describes the View Helper pattern and shows how to build a few useful view helpers that you can add to your own ...

Design Patterns Solve Common Problems for Web’s Color Blind Users Every website owner wants to reach as large of an audience as possible.