Enourmous traffic boost on ui-patterns.com
Wow. I think I’ve been dugg – or del.icoi.us’ed! Something happened to ui-patterns.com, that from yesterday has 30 60 doubled its traffic!
Here’s a screenshot from my google analytics account:
Crazy!
The traffic is coming in from mostly del.icio.us and digg.com – but also from popurls.com and a Japanese blog
I’m stunned!
November 26th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
I like the concept of ui-patterns.com, despite the (probably) altruistic nature of Yahoo’s design pattern library, I still get this feeling that they could use it to influence UI design to suit themselves (god knows why, maybe I’m just paranoid). It’s nice however to see an independant site documenting this stuff.
A couple of ideas for improving the site:
For each design pattern you could add a best-practice section in which tips concerning coding, mark-up, UX and links to good implementations could go.
It would be nice to include some sort of discussion for each pattern – possibly as a comment stream on each page.
November 26th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
Dave: Thank you for the nice words – and even more thank you for your comments.
Actually, the site is already a wiki – but with access rights only for me. The plan is to release the wiki features for everybody once I feel the library is well-rounded without too many loose-ends.
Comments is definitely needed to discuss patterns – but what do you mean by “comment stream”? An RSS feed for comments?
As the for best-practice sections – I think you’re on to something there as well. When I first created the site, I made two main sections: patterns and techniques. The idea was then that the techniques should be the best-practices of how to implement each pattern. What I quickly found out was however that such best-practice tutorials take a looong time to write. BUT – they will get done eventually.
Thank you for the input!
November 27th, 2007 at 5:32 am
UI-Patterns is a great resource! I’ve recommended it to my designers and copywriters as essential reading to understand how to create better user experiences. Great job, Andrew. =)
November 29th, 2007 at 11:40 am
Thank-you for this great tool !
But I think youd should add one major improvement to your site : an RSS feed !
This would be very userfull because I think people don’t want to come back each day to see if you added someting…
December 4th, 2007 at 12:02 am
David Koss: an RSS feed has been added…