What?

UI Pattern Factory is a resource for everyone who needs to design or develop user interfaces. It is a collection of Web design patterns, best practices, which helps you to find inspiration and design interfaces with great user experience. It is also a user interface gallery full of fresh pattern examples, and everyone is invited to add more using Flickr. You can also have your say on the library future in the forum. The goal is to create a living pattern language whose structure and content get updated collaboratively by the community.

How do I share my pattern examples?

Easy!

  • First, join our public Flickr group if you haven’t already (Only group members can contribute to the group pool)
  • Take a screenshot or video capture of an interesting implementation of one of our patterns, upload it to Flickr, describe it with a lot of notes and description text, tag it using the name of a pattern, and send it to the group.
  • That’s it, you’re all done! The screenshot/video should show up with the pattern in the library after few minutes. If not, check you tags.

How do I suggest a new pattern?

  • Take a screenshot, capture video, or draw an example picture of a pattern you think should be added to our library, and post it to our Flickr group the same way as you post example screenshots to existing patterns. Tag it with words that you think describe it best.
  • We would also like to have it posted as an idea to the Pattern Ideas-forum. Don’t forget to add a link to the example screenshot! However, if you don’t have a picture, it is okay to suggest it anyway.
  • We will review your suggestion, and if we and other people in the forum think it has potential you’ll see the pattern you suggested in our library in near future.

The Team

Janne Lammi

Janne is the guy who created this site. He is responsible for keeping the pattern library fresh and designing and coding the UIPF Web site. He has been interested in UI design patterns since 2006 when he created a pattern library as part of his Master’s thesis project (pdf, 8.8 MB). He makes his living as a Usability Specialist, but he also understands what it takes to implement the patterns he writes since he has a background in software engineering. Janne is passionate about user interface design, but more than anything, he is simply passionate about his favorite hockey team, Ässät.

  • Janne is 29, lives in Helsinki, Finland.
  • His professional interests include user experience, design patterns, prototyping, Web2.0, agile usability, and Web design.
  • In his personal life he digs the feeling after running a marathon, good books, the element of water, all the good vibes that music brings, and lots of other stuff.

Bits of Janne elsewhere: MSN Web Messenger: i80706@uwasa.fidel.icio.us: VimmaFlickr: Janne LLast.fm: Vimma80Facebook: 500985209My LinkedIn profile

Johannes Hocksell

Johannes joined the UI Pattern Factory in October 2008. He is a guru in marketing and business administration, and his current role is to listen to our users and brainstorm how to make the UI Pattern Factory a better place. In addition to that he is our official food and wine matching guide.

  • Johannes is 27, lives in Helsinki.
  • His professional interests include social marketing, product development, and customer service.
  • In his personal life he digs the taste of good food and wine with his friends.

Bits of Johannes elsewhere: del.icio.us: Hokku Facebook: 675567094

Copyright

UIPatternFactory.com is copyright of Pattern Factory Oy. However, all our patterns are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 1.0 Finland. The license excludes screenshots and screens casts used with the patterns, because copyrights belong to the original creators of the content.

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