Welcome to our official feedback forum. Do you have an idea on how to make the UI Pattern Factory even better? We want to hear from you! We will do our best to include the highest rated ideas in the next version.
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10 votes
Provide video examples of patterns
Using video demonstrations of patterns could be an effective way to communicate how each pattern work.
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4 votes
Flickr Guidelines
You should provide better guidelines on how to post images to Flickr and make the screenshots show up on the UIPF site.
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2 votes
Provide Design Stencils
Design stencils would make it easier to use UIPF's patterns in design. For example Yahoo! provides a stencil kit which is mapped to the patterns in their library: http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/wireframes
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1 votes
My patterns / Add to favorites
Allow users to add to favorites the patterns they like most.
When the size of the library grows, it comes more difficult to find patterns the user needs. Therefore it would be great if users could bookmark patterns and thus create their own patterns library.
I'd also love the possibility to customize patterns for my needs, for example by adding links that only I (or my group) can see.
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0 votes
Provide writing guidelines for pattern
I'd need a house styleguide which would describe how to write a pattern, what elements it should contain etc.
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0 votes
Show Flickr notes with the images
It would be great if Flickr notes would be shown with the pattern examples on the site. Now I need to go to Flickr to see the examples with notes.
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0 votes
Show descriptions of example pictures
Now the user needs to click the example picture to see the description in Flickr. It'd be better if the descriptions would show up with the pictures on individual pattern view on the library.
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0 votes
Use PLML
Publish patterns as Pattern Language Markup Language (PLML) documents.
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0 votes
Distributing patterns as web services
It would allow creating a pattern library using patterns from several different shared pattern collections. A kind of collaboratively across organizations managed pattern language would reduce the amount of work needed to implement a pattern library as all the patterns required weren’t needed to be written by one organization.
Furthermore, administrating the library would be easier since the web service patterns from external libraries would be updated by other pattern librarians.
Distributing patterns as web services makes it possible to publish the patterns to different applications as well. For example, patterns integrated into IDEs, such as Visual Studio, and toolkits could provide significant benefits for designers and developers as the patterns for the current design problems would always be at hand. For instance, when a software engineer develops a registration form, the IDE could show the patterns he most likely will need in this task.
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0 votes
Digg.com style voting on patterns
New patterns submitted by users could appear in the “Upcoming patterns-list” where other users can review them and vote the patterns to be published they like best. If the pattern receives enough votes, it is promoted as “approved” and gets officially published.
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0 votes
Allow users to add tags to existing patterns
I'd like to allow visitors add tags to patterns other users have written.
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0 votes
UIPF stream
Provide a stream that aggregates all UIPF feeds (web site, Flickr, Twitter) to a one stream.
