As a small indie app dev - Great resource! Will use it. My thoughts -
1. Agree that use of space on screen could be improved.
2. Need to be able to rewind/replay videos to see interactions well
3. One way I think about patterns is the following 4 buckets
- consensus among whatever major apps like fb, google are doing whether u like it or not, because that defines the ‘standard’ people are used to, and there is a good chance it’s backed by a ton of UX research $$.
- novelties / cute details / visuals/ conceptually elegant design that add differentiation & perceived value, but on the other hand often suck up dev time and end up not being the ideal in terms of functionality.
- design that adds usability, even if it is considered not elegant or redundant - E.g captioning icons
- design that nudges towards intended behavior.
Of course great design does all 4 (HQ trivia is a good example), but more often there is a real trade off and a lot of the design pattern sites I see focus too much on #2 and a bit of #1 - at least I think it would be a really useful segmentation to have e.g “we’re showing you this pattern because it looks cool & different” vs “this has become standard” vs “this is simple & works really well”
4. a more comparative view of the apps (A does this this way, B does it this other way, etc) would be more useful than the individual ‘A does this, isn’t it nice’. I realise some comparison is possible if you select a tag (eg settings) then scroll through the apps, but not ideal yet