A beautiful meditation on Christopher Alexander by Claire L. Evans.
- People only understand things relative to things they already understand
- People only understand things in context
- People rely on patterns and consistency
- People seek to minimize cognitive load
- People have varying levels of expertise and familiarity
- People are goal-oriented
- People often don’t know what they’re looking for
- Information is more useful when it’s actionable
I think we often focus on designing or building an element, without researching the other elements it should connect to—without understanding the system it lives in.
Part one of a deep dive by Nathan into structuring design system documentation, published on Ev’s blog.
Paul pulls no punches in this rousing talk from Patterns Day.
The transcript is on his site.
The latest video from Patterns Day is up—Ellen’s superb philosophical presentation: Patterns in Language, Language in Patterns.
There’s so much packed into this one, it might take more than one viewing to take it all in.
A presentation at An Event Apart Boston 2018.