Feedback & Ideas for Patternry
Welcome to our feedback forum. Do you have an idea on how to make Patternry even better? We want to hear from you! We will do our best to include the best ideas as soon as possible.
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Provide Design Stencils
Design stencils would make it easier to use your patterns in design. For example Yahoo! provides a stencil kit which is mapped to the patterns in their library: http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/wireframes
20 votesunder review ·Adminjannel (Admin, Patternry) responded
We’ll take this under consideration later.
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Pros and Cons-section for each pattern
Add a new section to all pattern, which discusses the usability of each pattern. Something more descriptive than "Why?" section you already have. That would give more credibility to your patterns and would help people to decide whether to use or not to use a pattern.
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Custom fields
Would be great if Admins could define new fields, remove or rename field labels in existing form.
9 votesstarted ·Adminjannel (Admin, Patternry) responded
We started implementing this now, but since this is a rather big change, it will take a while until this gets published.
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Faceted navigation
I believe that faceted navigation approach would make finding patterns easier.
8 votesunder review ·Adminjannel (Admin, Patternry) responded
We should consider this when we have more patterns.
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Make patterns searchable
Should be able to search for patterns by keyword.
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6 votes
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Add multiple images to the same library at once
Adding multiple examples to the same library at once makes it easier to add patterns, so the libraries wil get more great examples as well
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Please support Sass for the CSS
You should let people use Sass for their CSS pattern libraries and maybe even have a place for Sass variables.
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Allow Project-Wide CSS
It would be awesome if we could have project-wide CSS file that would allow us to share our CSS between projects. We often find our selves copying and pasting boilerplate code on each pattern. Let's have a way to share it across a project.
5 votesstarted ·Adminjannel (Admin, Patternry) responded
Good news: we started working on this now, and hope to get this finished in few weeks.
I agree, this would be really useful, and we have talked about this already. I’ll keep you updated as we progress with this.
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4 votesplanned ·
Adminjannel (Admin, Patternry) responded
We use Tumblr blog which doesn’t support email subscription, but I could use Feedburner with it which has this feature. I need to do some research on this.
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Email based access restrictions
Instead of sending invites to users, company employees could sign up with their company email addresses to access their company workspace.
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Make it easier to get thumbnail image working
1) Use phantomJS (or some other fancy stuff) to generate an image from the HTML I use in the case I don't give you a thumbnail image.
2) If I give you an image, make it the thumbnail by default.
3) Let me drag and drop an image.4 votesunder review ·Adminjannel (Admin, Patternry) responded
Thanks for the suggestion Jamund, I really appreciate your feedback. We had to start with a simple implementation here, but we will improve this later. I can’t give you any schedule yet, but I see improving this important and I’ll do my best to push this forward.
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Tag Example screenshot with multiple patterns, so you don't have to upload the same image twice
Most patterns are related to other patterns, it would be nice to use an already uploaded image for another pattern as well.
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Allow users to add tags to existing patterns
I'd like to allow visitors add tags to patterns other users have written.
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Dashboard
I want to be able to track changes on patterns and libraries as well as the latest comments.
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Make it easy to invite friends & colleagues
This should be a no-brainer. I want to invite friends & colleagues to use this tool, but I don't see anywhere to do so. This is definitely the type of app where that would make sense. I see where I could invite colleagues to a shared workspace, but I suspect as a product, design and dev team we'd want to try the product out individually first.
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Option to print a library of patterns
It'd be great if you added an option to print your library so you can have it always at hand, comment on it and share it with your team :-)
3 votesunder review ·Adminjannel (Admin, Patternry) responded
I like the idea. There’s a lot of things on our todo-list currently, but we’ll take this under consideration a bit later.
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3 votes
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Digg.com style voting on patterns
New patterns submitted by users could appear in the “Upcoming patterns-list” where other users can review them and vote the patterns to be published they like best. If the pattern receives enough votes, it is promoted as “approved” and gets officially published.
2 votesunder review ·Adminjannel (Admin, Patternry) responded
Interesting idea an this will be considered in the future.
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Please escape html in my description.
I want to be able to say things like this can be a 'a' tag or a 'button' tag without it trying to make a link on my page. Super annoying!
2 votes