Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Slats in UX

A coworker today told me that Mail Chimp is developing reusable UI elements for developers and these include slats. I had to ask what a slat was and it turns out it is a horizontal strip of content like a header, but with more meat than just a background image and one string of copy. It will have slots (placeholders) for content, be they copy or controls. At http://ux.mailchimp.com/patterns/slats we have this example:

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