10 UI Design Patterns You Should Be Paying Attention To

via smashingmagazine we have 10 UI Design Patterns You Should Be Paying Attention To, and they are

1. Lazy Registration;
2. Progressive Disclosure;
3. Forgiving Format;
4. Clear Primary Actions;
5. Breadcrumbs;
6. Account Registration;
7. Required Field Marker;
8. Steps Left;
9. Subscription plans;
10. Hover Controls;

Every web designer and developer should have some thoughts on solving them, when they occur (not every site will need some or even any of the ui design patterns), and be able to pull code (css and javascript) out of the olde tool box. Building or extracting them as plug-in or samples also make great coding exercises, or demos!

What’s in your toolkit?