Over the past few months I conducted an audit of the patterns in Yahoo!'s internal design pattern library, with an eye toward publishing as many of them as possible in the open library at YDN . Why? Well, for one thing, to get more eyeballs on them,...

Can you describe the stencils you contributed, why you made them, and what you personally use them for? I created a customizable, vector-based iPhone stencil library for InDesign . They came about as a result of several conversations that ultimately...

A few months back we shared our current thinking on the "accordion" navigation component , and asked the community of web developers and designers who read this blog to take a survey to help us determine defaults, current practices, and other...

I'm looking for feedback from people who have designed or built an interface using an "accordion" module (or are considering doing so). You see, I've been working on a design pattern for accordion modules, and I'd like to throw out a handful of open...

Recently, we released a family of related Reputation patterns to the Yahoo Design Pattern Library, the first of several collections of social-design related patterns that we're working on. These patterns are somewhat different from the typical UI or...

As the end of last year was winding up I spent some time tinkering with the open pattern library, in order to clear the way for our latest pattern release, Carousel . One reason why I needed to do this tinkering is that the Carousel pattern contains...

Things have been quiet recently in Yahoo's open pattern library, but behind the scenes we've been working on some cool stuff. First of all, we've reorganized the navigation for Yahoo!'s internal library and have now updated the navigation of the...

We recently celebrated the one-year anniversary of the open-source release of the YUI Library . It is also the one-year anniversary of the public release of the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library . Not wanting to miss out on the fun, we published two new...