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How This Guide Will Help You Get an Investment From Jeff Bezos
Not really. This is, on the other hand, a guide to using patterns in web design, written by Ryan Singer, one of the 37 signal types (who just announced the other day an investment in their company by Jeff Bezos).
There is a better way to manage this vast complexity than by making big decisions up front and hoping for the best. To make better sites — sites that are functional, beautiful, and "usable" — we have to break our design problems up into small independent chunks based on the real issues within our requirements. Christopher Alexander, who came up with this stuff, calls these chunks patterns.
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An Introduction to Using Patterns in Web Design: It does what it says on the tin.
Baldur Bjarnason – 19/8/06
