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UI Pattern Documentation Review

Boxes and Arrows

In many cases, less proprietary patterns are more useful in solving a design problem as they can be implemented more uniformly across platforms. This characteristic and the efficiency gains make patterns an excellent opportunity for software companies to come together and promote UI patterns to the wider development community.

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Control and Community: A Case Study of Enterprise Wiki Usage

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In this article I describe one application of the Wiki way to a common corporate process and extract some guidelines for the effective use of Wikis in that context. You typically find some explicit guidelines for contributors, either formulated by the founders/hosts, or as an evolving page edited by the contributors themselves.