Design Patterns

Write about the Christopher Alexander patterns from your own perspective – compare Work Community to Slack or Degrees of Publicness to Facebook. How are these social applications similar or different to the concepts discussed in these patterns?
Pick two more patterns from the set provided and write about experiences you have had that support the concepts in the pattern. How did it make you feel? What else did you notice about it? Are there online experiences that you have had that one of these patterns might describe? Why? Post your thoughts to the class blog. Make sure to select Design Patterns category.

• Design Patterns
  by Ruth Bhavsar
  Christopher Alexander’s spatial architecture and design patterns can be easily overlooked by most of us living in them, but once you consider the profound impact…
• Patterns Patterns Patterns
  by Elspeth Tordoff
  Degrees of Publicness directly links to privacy on Facebook. Its the people with completely public profiles, for the world to see. These are the extroverts….
• Design patterns
  by Monica Xu
  Christopher Alexander, who produced and validated by using a “pattern language” to empower anyone to design and build at any scale in collaboration with Sarah…
• Christopher Alexander’s Patterns till Today
  by Vincent Chen
  Christopher Alexander had created many different patterns. Those claim an idea of how to structure a community, and different patterns can work in different types…
• Interaction Pattern Language
  by DeeDee Kwon
  After reading Alexander’s pattern language, I wondered what the pattern was. Patterns are standard solutions to the problems that appear in the context as part…
• Space
  by Yitong Wang
  Compare Work Community to Slack The idea of Work Community is to create positive experiences during work. Since people spend more time in the office…
• Architectural space rules in digital social platforms
  by Jasmine Sun
  It’s interesting and surprising to connect patterns and spaces in architecture with digital interaction. These two can be cleverly matched in terms of design, as…
• Pattern languages in Modern Design
  by Mengyao Xiu
  Work community to slack According to #41 Work Community from Christopher Alexander’s patterns, Alexander proposed a theory that workspaces function as communities. He stated five…
• Online Collaboration Pattern
  by Hermione Hu
  Work Community to Teamwork In the Work Community, Christopher Alexander mentions the different jobs can be placed in one workplace community. In teamwork, as the…
• Patterns & Spaces
  by Brian Zhao
  Christopher Alexander had come up with many pattern designs for communities and public spaces. The one design that really stood out to me was his…
• Healthy Workplace Practices
  by Evan Tang
  Christopher Alexander’s Patterns from A Pattern Language went over many cases and ideas he has about community and learning opportunities. In March of 2020, the…
• Architecting Space to Digital Workplace
  by Ted Huang
  Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language inspired me to view architectural design in a completely different way. Before, I have never considered a workplace or a neighborhood that…
• Interaction Spaces Within the Internet
  by Jonahtan Rabago
  Patterns from a Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander talks about the interactions between people in different spaces and architecture. One of the chapters, Work Community,…
• Christopher Alexander patterns – similarities and differences
  by Lylyna Heng
  Work Community to Slack First of all, tech companies tend to be decentralized, which makes it easier to communicate, connect and work within team. Christopher…
• Relevance of Architecting spaces and interactive design
  by Elena Wang
  Christopher Alexander’s architectural thoughts about working communities and interaction design, which seem to be unrelated majors, are actually closely related. Christopher Alexander’s concept of working…
• Demarcation of Work and Life
  by Elaine Choi
  In Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language, he outlines various concepts in architecture that may be replicated to fit various contexts dependent on the inhabitants needs…
• Alexander’s Design Patterns
  by Zijie Zhou
  Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language described a practical architectural system in a form that a theoretical mathematician or computer scientist might call a generative grammar….
• Engagement Preferences, First Impressions, and Isolation; Transcending Physical & Virtual Spaces
  by Noah Ahrens
  Christopher Alexander’s patterns explore various approaches to architecture and urban design, specifically focusing on how those both impact the experience of community within different groupings. …
• Things you do over and over
  by Corey Rossi
  Christopher Alexanders ideas on Work Community resonate with how the app Slack works. Alexander writes, “Workplaces must not be too scattered, nor too agglomerated, but…
• Similar Design Patterns in Slack
  by Peter Peng
  Christopher Alexander creates the design pattern based on his observation of architecture, urban design, and community livability. I think there is some similarity between the…
• People’s needs never change
  by Rebecca Lin
  In Cristopher Alexandra’s “A Pattern Language,” I found many connections between the social media we are using nowadays.I can see many patterns being applied to…
• Digital community
  by Betty Li
  I think the social media application is very similar to the architecture in our real society. Think about mural. When you create a group and…
• Design Patterns of Christopher Alexander from Paper to the Digital World
  by Philip Joo
  Christopher Alexander describes #36 Degrees of Publicness using our personalities (introvert/extrovert) as a way of choosing where to live in a neighborhood.  He states, “To…
• Forget the cubicles!
  by Anh Truong
  Whenever the word “workplace” pops up, the first image that comes to your mind might be a company with many square identical cubicles. But the…
• The similar patterns in digital applications
  by Tai Hao
  Comparing to Slack, there are many similar key points in the “work community” pattern written by Christopher Alexander. In the reading, Christopher suggests that the…
• From Small Town Architecture to Web Apps – Design Patterns
  by Amanda Liu
  The design patterns from the book A Pattern Language comes from Christopher Alexander’s observation of small towns that survived from the Medieval century. The way…
• Humane Communication
  by John Cho
  Christopher Alexander presented case studies of human patterns. Degrees of Publicness claim to make a clear definition between three different kinds of people: extrovert, intermediate, and…