after you've paged thru the book, to refresh your memory later, look thru the TOC. these folks scanned it in:
http://www.gbv.de/du/services/toc/bs/494996390
preface: another ((better)) name for pattern language 'forces' is 'tensions'
recc. book the "design of sites"
some elements that a design process should have:
closable panels can have be sublists open/closed by a +/- with a box around it
smart menu items e.g. "undo" -> "undo paragraph alignment"
8 preattentive variables for infographics:
hue, brightness, saturation, position/alignment, orientation, size, texture, shape
cascading lists: e.g. 4 columns, collections/family/typeface/size. to specify a selection, you must select one thing in each column. note that in some apps, some columns may be a 2d table of icons, rather than a 1d list of text
tree table: e.g. email threads
neat idea for financial apps: drop down calculator attached to a text field
example page that makes use of hairlines: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/ ( http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/ )
hairlines go with thick sans serif fonts