Before we start codifying a design pattern
As we are getting 'static' images for patterns (for now). We need to make sure we have the full story on what it can and cannot do so we can code for any possible known eventuality of the pattern.
Take the factoid for example.
At the moment it is a block of content. It has a heading and some text. It has a background colour. The background colour means the text needs to be white.
But ...
- would it link to something else?
- would that be via a 'read more' link?
- would the whole pattern be a link?
- will it have inline links in the text?
- will it always be white on blue?
- will it ever have an image?
I think we should start asking these types of questions (and more that I can't think of or could be posed by a different pattern) when we are starting to code things so that we know the constraints and possibilities of the pattern.