Graffiti Design

Old Is New

I decided to scrap the site I had written from scratch for now. It was functional and worked, but updating and making design changes took a lot of work. Until I have time and motivation to change the code, I choose to relaunch using WordPress. This will (hopefully) allow me to focus on the content until I can revisit the presentation.

Speaking of presentation (look at that smooth segue), I was doing some work on the interface today for a C# program for work and stumbled upon Yahoo!’s Design Pattern Library. It’s a catalog of common interfaces, the problems they attempt to solve, and a discussion on the pros and cons. It’s certainly not the only pattern library available, but it has a fairly extensive collection with good examples. Many, if not most, of the designs should be familiar to you, as they grace a number of websites.