We've announced the availability of the Oracle Fusion Applications user experience design patterns. Developers can get going on these using the Design Filter Tool (or DeFT) to select the best pattern for their context of use.

As you drill into the patterns you will discover more guidelines from the Applications User Experience team and some from the Rich Client User Interface team too that are also leveraged in Fusion Apps. All are based on the Oracle Application Development Framework components.

To accelerate your Fusion apps development and tailoring, here's some inside insight into the really important patterns and guidelines that every apps developer needs to know about. They start at a broad Fusion Apps information architecture level and then become more granular at the page and task level.

Information Architecture: These guidelines explain how the UI of an Oracle Fusion application is constructed. This enables you to understand where the changes that you want to make fit into the oveall application's information architecture. Begin with the UI Shell and Navigation guidelines, and then move onto page-level design using the Work Areas and Dashboards guidelines.

• UI Shell Guideline


• Navigation Guideline


• Introduction to Work Areas Guideline


• Dashboards Guideline

Page Content: These patterns and guidelines cover the most common interactions used to complete tasks productively, beginning with the core interactions common across all pages, and then moving onto task-specific ones.

Core Across All Pages

• Icons Guideline


• Page Actions Guideline


• Save Model Guideline


• Messages Pattern Set


• Embedded Help Pattern Set

Task Dependent

• Add Existing Object Pattern Set


• Browse Pattern Set


• Create Pattern Set


• Detail on Demand Pattern Set


• Editing Objects Pattern Set


• Guided Processes Pattern Set


• Hierarchies Pattern Set


• Information Entry Forms Pattern Set


• Record Navigation Pattern Set


• Transactional Search and Results Pattern Group

Now, armed with all this great insider information, get developing some great-looking, highly usable apps! Let me know in the comments how things go!