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So people often ask, like, why are design patterns valuable?

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Well, I mean, they resolve a lot of the problems that we have the solution for.

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So people will naturally look for patterns.

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I mean, this is huge.

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People are always looking for patterns.

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So when we think about when we arrive on a product, we have a good understanding of how things will

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work.

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We often think we already know where to click.

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I mean, this is based on all our prior experiences dealing with other applications and the solutions

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that they've used.

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So you wouldn't necessarily go out there and create an entirely new design pattern for something that

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is kind of mainstream.

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When sites incorporate known patterns, users often have an easier time getting where they're going

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or accomplishing their goals.

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Some would argue that if we all use design patterns, our sites may look cookie cutter like.

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But most designers will agree that there are significant benefits to following established patterns

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and then you can tweak them a tiny bit, which could be to match your style and your design system.

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But the benefit would be to provide a more delightful user experience for your users.

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Using standard design patterns reduces cognitive strength.

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So if people are already familiar with how like objects on the interface will act, it's kind of saves

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them the time from thinking about what they should be doing or what they should be doing next.

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Reducing the need for people to actually think is so important, if you like, to keep them as users

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also, I mean, designers also benefit from using patterns.

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It saves us from constantly having to reinvent the wheel.

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Like I mentioned before, engineers have kind of known this for a long time.

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They kind of have like these large repositories or open source code that have like large components

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and they kind of can recycle themselves.

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It really depends on how they build their applications.

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But rewriting similar code from scratch is going to take them away longer than necessarily copying and

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pasting and tweaking.

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So designers who use design patterns can free up time for creating and tweaking, which is kind of like

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the really fun part.

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And that's why they're so valuable.