Introducing a Comprehensive Quality Criteria Framework for Validating Patterns

摘要

Patterns represent an important tool for communicating, documenting and looking up best practices for both novice and expert system developers and designers. Although there are a number of different patterns and pattern languages available, it is still unclear how to validate patterns in a structured way. Within this paper, we aim to fill this gap by introducing a Quality Criteria Framework developed on the basis of existing pattern research and applied within iterative evaluation sessions for improving our developed User Experience (UX) Patterns. In particular, five main quality criteria for patterns will be presented and discussed in detail.