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The Cult of the Complex

A List Apart

This basic idea, and I use the adjective advisedly, along with other equally rudimentary and self-evident concepts, formed the basis of my 2003 book Designing With Web Standards , which the industry treated as a revelation, when it was merely common sense. A Book Apart: The New CSS Layout , by Rachel Andrew.

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Patterns are good

UX Collective

In a more academic view, Lafrenière and Granlund and Carr (2001) in the paper “ A pattern-Supported Approach to the User Interface Design Process ” argue that a pattern should be a “formalized description of a proven concept that expresses non-trivial solutions to a user interface design problem”. Navigation design patterns.

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