Until the end of 2008, I participated in a research project at my former university's Interaction Design Lab to create a pattern collection for complex interface design projects with a focus on the application field of geovisualization. Since December 2008, the... [more]

You might have noticed it already, but here comes the official announcement: The InfoDesignPatterns collection is now linked to the pattern browser of the easy2use 2.0 project group at Interaction Design Lab. The project group works on a design pattern language for interactive user interfaces and cooperates with several... [more]

Barely online for a day, the new Info Design Patterns website got its first major update. A community section was added, which is quite empty yet, but might lay the foundation for a higher level of user contribution that goes beyond rating and commenting. In order to keep users up-to-date about features as well as new content, I set up a mailing list everyone who's interested can register with.... [more]

About a month later than promised (I've been seriously busy the last couple of weeks, really), I can finally roll out a redesign of the pattern browser to replace the clumsy Flash interface which caught some negative feedback. Please keep in mind it's still in beta (surprise!), so I cannot guarantee you won't run into minor bugs and flaws while playing around with it. If you do, let me know - I'm... [more]