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Bilinear color interpolation. Android UI Design Patterns: UI Design Pattern - Dynamic List. Many Android apps use lists components to display large amount of data. Often this data is loaded over a network connection. Using dynamic lists greatly improve user experience over preloading everything and forcing user to wait. More details after the jump... Loading a lot of data can be very slow especially if the data is loaded over a network connection. When displaying this data to users forcing them to wait for the whole data set before letting them start working with the data can ruin the user experience. Solution Instead of waiting for all the data to load it is better to load only the most relevant data and populate it to a list immediately.

Consequences User interface is more responsive.Data loading is non-intrusive.No non-necessary data is loaded. Implementations Endless list Most common way this patter is implemented in currently available apps is to start loading new data when user scrolls the list down to the end. Pager Engadget app uses paging instead of long lists. 15 UI Design Patterns Web Designers Should Keep Handy. User interface design patterns help create consistency throughout the web, and provide a great resource for web designers looking for the best tested, most usable, and most efficient layouts.

Many things in life are in a pattern, and this includes applications in both design and development. Whilst creativity and thinking outside the box is a must in design, so is conformity much of the time. UI patterns in web design are gaining recognition as an important resource to consider, and creating designs around them can help any website be more user-friendly. In this post we're going to look over the 15 most usable UI design patterns web designers should be paying attention to.

By using these patterns, or at least taking bits and pieces of their theory, designs can be created quicker with the best possible results. 1. Page Grids Grids are often used in web design to organize imagery and content, create alignment, and apply Divine Proportion or other basic design principles. Further Resources. 4 Best User Interface Pattern Libraries | UX Movement. By anthony on 09/13/10 at 2:45 pm As designers, sometimes we need a little inspiration to get our creative juices flowing.

Looking at examples of different user interface patterns could give us the ideas we need to design something amazing. That’s why I put together four of the best user interface design pattern libraries around the web. I have searched and looked at dozens. But these four, I believe, offer the best examples with the best navigations for browsing. Elements of Design Pattern Tap Patternry UI Patterns. UI Pattern Ideas: List with Functions. Last week I asked people to participate in a group design project on a specific design pattern: a list with functions.

The premise was: The design pattern we are going to tackle is a list with functions. Think of a list of five names. The primary function of this list is to click the names. The secondary function of the list is that the list needs to be manageable. There needs to be some kind of functionality to edit and delete each list item. The response was amazing. Not every single submitted idea is shown below. Hover Functionality I quoted a Zeldman tweet in the opening article that said that functionality that only reveals itself on hover fails. Example by Sean. Example by cancel bubble. Example by kil. Edit Mode I'm thinking having a toggle for turning the list into "Edit Mode" is the most successful base for this design pattern. Example by Jay Salvat. Kirk Strobeck created a PDF describing an interface which is essentially a list with three different modes. Mass Edit Mode Other Winner. Patternry | User Interface Design Patterns for Ideas and Inspiration.

Elements of Design: A Web Design Showcase. Design Pattern Library. Interaction Design Pattern Library - Welie.com. Suggest a pattern Have you seen new examples of patterns out there that have not been described on this site? Send me a link to an example and I'll add it to my to-do list. Suggest a pattern Latest comments Form (Lucas Gwadana) Sometimes the ERROR handling is not explicit enough because when a user makes an...

Map Navigator (Marcus) For print pages etc static maps are still relevant. Accordion (dellmre) Ajax accordion samples with source code Autocomplete (Zorg) I believe the name of this pattern to be misleading. Slideshow (Joshua) Slideshows on Homepages can be very beneficial.