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An inconvenient thesis?

Christine Elizabeth Wania’s phd thesis questions the empirical evidence for the benefits of pattern languages in HCI: For more than two decades much of the pattern language literature, within the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), has focused on the possible benefits pattern languages may provide, but there has been very little empirical work to support [...]

Eureka!, again

On Thursday we had the 2nd practical inquiry day of the formative e-assessment group. The focus of this day was collecting case stories and identifying seed patterns (aka proto-patterns). To get people in the right mood, we started with the Eureka! game, which we first tried in Singapore. You have to try it - it’s such [...]

Cloudworks, pattern aggregators, and some news from the Planet platform

Last week Jim, Steve and myself were invited to a Cloudfest with the Cloudworks team. A lot of interesting stuff came up (see George’s post). Among them, the question of sharing design objects (patterns, resources, etc.) across sites and the visual aspects of design objects. This resonated well with some the conversations we’ve been having [...]