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One of the more interesting panels I attended at SXSW this year was “Design Patterns: Defining and Sharing Web Interface Design Languages”. I'd heard the phrase “design patterns” used before, but I never really read up on it. So, I've been trying to get everything together as a reference for myself.

Here is the round-up web post from the panel presenter Luke Wroblewski. It’s a shame that Luke had only a half an hour to present on this topic. His post includes a link to the slides (oops, it seems the link is broken now) he used as well as some links to others who have also put down some notes on this panel.

If you don’t want to dig into his slides, here are some of the external resources he pointed to:

• Patterns in Interaction Design
• Yahoo! Design Pattern Library
• Web Patterns: A UC Berkeley Resource for Building User Interfaces
• User Interface Design Patterns: Introduction
• UI Patterns and Techniques, by Jenifer Tidwell, the author of…
• Designing Interfaces – an excellent, and quite recent, book on the subject
• Design Patterns: Introduction – Another post on the presenter’s website with loads of good information

And since the panel, I came across this article at 37signals, by Ryan Singer: An Introduction to Using Patterns in Web Design.

I knew this would happen. I relaunch this site, post a single entry, and then neglect it for several weeks. So, to try and kick start things here, I signed up for the CSS Reboot Spring 2006 event, hoping that if I give the site a decent facelift, that maybe I'll post again. We'll see.