To kick things off here, I’ll post the slides from my talk at the 2006 Information Architecture Summit in spectacular and cupcake-rich Vancouver, B.C.

Micah Alpern and I presented what was really two related topics squooshed together: mine was a history of our use & abuse of design patterns at eBay, and Micah’s was a deconstruction of one part of one of our more fleshed out sets of patterns.

The presentation is here: IA Summit Design Patterns Presentation (PDF)

Discussion over at Functioning Form is here: IA Summit: Design Patterns in the Real World