{"id":429,"date":"2015-03-22T18:45:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T22:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/?p=429"},"modified":"2015-03-22T18:47:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T22:47:10","slug":"pattern-signifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/pattern-signifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Pattern Signifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Word:\u00a0<\/strong>Pattern Signifiers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Definition:\u00a0<\/strong>Common UI\u00a0trends that have been popularized to the point of near universal understanding.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts:\u00a0<\/strong>We may not always know what the symbol means or why it works but we sure know what to do with it!\u00a0How do you know that clicking on the three horizontal-lined icon will open an expanded menu? Why did\u00a0you know to click on the site logo to get to the\u00a0home page? Where can you enter a search query?<\/p>\n<p>The hamburger menu, a logo in the top left corner, and the magnifying glass icon are just three examples of these patterns.\u00a0Such pattern signifiers have become so ubiquitous over time\u00a0that we intuitively know not only how to use them, but what to expect from their given interaction. These learned behaviors work to create a library of common UI elements\u00a0that\u00a0both designers and users can\u00a0intuitively\u00a0understand and utilize.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question:<\/strong> What happens when a pattern signifier becomes as bad habit? Can we unlearn a pattern signifier?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word:\u00a0Pattern Signifiers Definition:\u00a0Common UI\u00a0trends that have been popularized to the point of near universal understanding. Thoughts:\u00a0We may not always know what the symbol means or why it works but we sure know what to do with it!\u00a0How do you know that clicking on the three horizontal-lined icon will open an expanded menu? Why did\u00a0you know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,130],"tags":[131,14,132,9],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iconography","category-patterns","tag-pattern-signifier","tag-signifier","tag-user-exoerience","tag-ux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}