The Design of Sites
I’ve been a fan of Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Constructions ever since I became aware of it as an architecture student in the early ‘90s. Having seen how Mr. Alexander’s ideas have been repurposed by the software development community, I’ve been thinking for a while about collating a pattern language for the development of websites. Developing such a language would be a tremendously useful, albeit time-consuming exercise.
Well, I don’t need to wish for this any longer, nor do I need to take it upon myself to develop something like this. The Design of Sites: Patterns, Principles, and Processes for Crafting a Customer-Centered Web Experience by Douglas K. van Duyne, James A. Landay and Jason I. Hong, seems to be exactly what I’ve been looking for. I just got it last week and it’s already been useful in helping me resolve issues with a site I am currently working on. This is an important reference book, one that should be on every web developer’s library. Highly recommended!
October 27, 2002 | Archived in Books
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