How I Use Nature's Patterns to Optimize Garden Design. Patterns help us find efficiencies—to see the path of least resistance—and learn from nature what works best.

When a design pattern is commonly used but is ineffective and/or counterproductive, the design pattern is known as an anti-pattern. One might argue that Double-checked locking as used in JDK 1.4 ...

Dorothy Draper, the mother of American interior design, was a master at mixing patterns, with her liberal use of motifs and colors. She paired glossy black-and-white checkered floors and thick ...

A design pattern is first an observation: “People in that kind of designed situation tend to do this sort of thing”. It is then possible to design an intervention that redirects those tendencies.