Quince, from Infragistics helps you explore some of the best user interface patterns.

If you are into Web development or into desktop applications development I’m sure you must have been craving for a library of samples for your user interface (to get influence, may be). Of course, there are plenty of websites that we tend to mock but to get an understanding of the user interface patterns there are not many obvious choices.

Quince from Infragistics fills that gap a little bit by exposing some of the most common user interface patterns in use.

At its home page Quince allows you to explore the different UI patterns by “User Tasks”, “Tag Relations”, “Wireframe” or you can explore “All Patterns”.

When you explore All Patterns, it neatly arranges the patterns by names such as Action Links, Breadcrumbs, Button Groups etc. There are a whole sleuth of patterns that you can explore on.

It also lists a wide range of filters to help you narrow down to the pattern that you are interested.

Once you click on a pattern to explore Quince brings up the details page with some image thumbnails so you can visually see it in action along with some descriptive text to help you understand the pattern.

Overall, it seems to a decent solution to find out about the various user interface patterns that’s in use in the everyday web/desktop. If you find any different usage of Quince please let us know in comments.

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