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Yahoo! Design Pattern Library

by Alex Schleifer
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Say what you will about Yahoo!, they sure do a lot for the developer community. We’re loving their design pattern library for building slick wireframes in OmniGraffle, Visio or any program that imports images.

Say what you will about Yahoo!, they sure do a lot for the developer community. We’re loving their design pattern library for building slick wireframes in OmniGraffle, Visio or any program that imports images.

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Alex Schleifer
Alex is CEO of Sideshow , an award winning creative agency. You can read his blog here.

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