[Sigia-l] web 2.0 interaction design pattern library

[Paola Kathuria]

Jay Morgan wrote:
> I think Yahoo! has already provided what you're looking for.  As an
> example, what you collected in [edit text in-page]
> below is already a published pattern on the Y!PL:
> http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/pattern.php?pattern=tooltipinvitation
> It's called ToolTip Invitation.

Yup, I saw that too. But that's about hover text giving
an action hint and not about in-page text editing.

> Then, what you put in [drag and drop page layout]
> already published in the Y!PL:
> http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/pattern.php?pattern=dragdropmodules#
> It's called Drag and Drop Modules. 

Hmm, yeah, I saw that as well, but you don't see the full
interaction. There's too much text and not enough pictures.
Perhaps I'm just lazy, but I want to be SHOWN the full
interaction and not have to work it out from reading a
page of text.

And I realise now I want actually to know two things for each,
umm, interaction type (was:pattern): 1) that drag-and-drop
exists as an emerging standard and 2) what design elements are
needed / work / don't work.

For example in drag-and-drop, the mouse pointer changes to a
four-arrow cursor. Perhaps one also needs visual 'anchors' to
show that something is pick-up-able plus another visual cue to
indicate when a dragged element is over a droppable area. Or
is this stuff all being recycled from existing application
design?

Hmmm.


Paola