Introducing Interaction Design Frameworks
“Whereas a design pattern is a common solution to a specific, recurring problem (such as pagination interfaces), an interaction design framework is a set of design patterns and other elements used together to guide the design of a complete system or site context.”
From UIE. This is a good overview of how you can take interactions within a software application, and across software applications, and distill them into patterns. Doing so helps reveal some of the strengths and weaknesses of those interactions. More importantly, thinking about interactions as a pattern helps identify opportunities to improve the interactions. And maybe even subvert or replace an interaction with something more direct and useful.
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