Interaction Patterns in User Interfaces.
Martijn van Welie, Hallvard Trætteberg · 2000
This paper discusses and presents interaction patterns in user interfaces. These patterns are focused on solutions to problems end-users have when interacting with systems. The patterns take an end-user perspective which leads to a format where usability is the essential design quality. The format is discussed and presented along with twenty patterns that have been written in that format. Introduction The patterns presented in this paper are part of an ongoing effort to describe successful solutions that benefit the users of the system 1 . Consequently, they are solutions most of us are acquainted with. Other collections such as Common Ground (Tidwell 1998) or the Web patterns collection (Perzel and Kane 1999) do not make the explicit distinction between the user perspective or the designer perspective. Although some of those patterns indeed benefit users, they lack the proper focus and rationale for it. For example, the problem statement in Tidwell's patterns is typically o...