Where to find User Interface (UI) design patterns for Windows applications?

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Where to find User Interface (UI) design patterns for Windows applications?

I don't know if this question really suits here, but we'll see :)

For web applications there are sites like Pattern Tap and UI-patterns, which have a great collection of design patterns used in UI's. I can't seem to find any websites/books/articles which cover design patterns for Windows Applications.

The only useful resource I found is Windows User Experience Interaction Guidelines. Could you suggest other resources, like books/websites/articles which covers guidelines/patterns like this?

Not programming patterns, but design/lay-out patterns.

You shold take a look at the MVVM pattern. It's for WPF and not for winforms, but if at all possible for you I would recommend using WPF instead of the old winforms.

klausbyskov 2010-01-20 09:38:12

I see that covers programming patterns, I'll save that link for later. But in this case, my question covers design related patterns :)

MysticEarth 2010-01-20 09:42:33

Oh, ok sorry. I guess I misunderstood your question then :-)

klausbyskov 2010-01-20 10:08:09

+2 A:

There is Quince for example. A large library of UX patterns with description and examples.

Joey 2010-01-20 09:45:42

That's a nice one, but as far as I see it only has UX patterns in webdesign...

MysticEarth 2010-01-20 10:02:34

I followed the link. The things I was looking for only displayed web stuff. But I've found some application patterns! Sorry, my bad.

MysticEarth 2010-01-20 10:10:40

These are some of my links, but I'd like to know more as well:

David Rutten 2010-01-20 10:01:53

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