Tag Archives: Design Patterns

Conservative Design: Option List

By Zach Leatherman | Published: February 26, 2007
This is another post in the series entitled Conservative Design Patterns for Form Elements. Next we’ll look at a web component that is almost ubiquitous among user interfaces today, the Option List. The Option List can take any one of the following three forms. Multiple Selections: User can select any number of the options presented [...]
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Conservative Design: Hierarchical Select

By Zach Leatherman | Published: February 22, 2007
This is a post in a series entitled Conservative Design Patterns for Form Elements. For now, I’ll start off with an easy web component that a lot of you have probably already had some experience with. But, strangely enough, it is not included in any of the JavaScript libraries that are out there, that I’ve [...]
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Conservative Design Patterns for Form Elements

By Zach Leatherman | Published: February 22, 2007
Have you ever been to a web site that looks as though it has been built exclusively using pre-made bulky widgets cookie cuttered right onto the page? Lovely grid components, sweet over-featured WYSIWYG editors, maybe a Google or Yahoo map thrown in on the page for good measure. Conformist web sites using the conditioning forced [...]
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