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Ask HN: Designers, please open up the library of stuff you've collected

24 points by tejaswiy ↗ HN
UX Designers, as a programmer trying to get better at this, I've realized designers generally try to collect various good pieces of design that they encounter and save them for inspiration. How about making it open for the community instead?

Someone please start a blog like http://littlebigdetails.com/ and put up UI elements too, not just interactions.

EDIT: A little more googling lead me to this (pdf): http://eightshapesunify.s3.amazonaws.com/CreatingAUXDesignLibrary.Final.pdf

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[dead] cancelbubble
I've sort of done this. Mostly for myself, but I've made it publicly available at:

http://www.cancelbubble.com/

It was basically my answer to not getting a Delicious account (nothing for me to learn signing up for a 3rd party service). This is where I catalog all the neat stuff I find online. I originally built it where it was open for others to join/submit but that resulted in spam - people would just spam their own sites. I closed all that down and now it's just me submitting.

What it sounds like you're looking for are design patterns, you might want to go through some of the links I've collected (filtered in the design category):

http://www.cancelbubble.com/search.php?q=design+patterns&...

Obviously feel free to search my site, but I openly admit my site search really sucks (it's simple string matching). Tag searching is another option for you to try.