Jenifer Tidwell:
> Are they used as design advice? Brainstorming tools? A lingua franca? Design
> instruction? All of the above?...
Ought to be at least two other possibilities:
You use UI patterns:
a) because you're lazy
b) but you don't know you're using them
(Nothing wrong with either, BTW. :-)
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Ziya
In design, interaction is the last resort.