The global site search field on some sites expand on entry. This keeps the search field small until needed, and visually unobtrusive, and makes it more welcoming for typing search criteria when needed.

See
* http://ux.stackexchange.com/
* http://apple.com/
* http://telstra.com/

Also, the expanded search field might occlude alternative functions being disregarded by the user's choice to use global search -- see ux.stackexchange for example.

Perhaps based on the original Windows 3.1 file manager, or more recently on many of Apple's products, a hierarchy of folders (or other containers) at the left, and clickable nodes display the content at the right. See iTunes as the most ubiquitous example, but it is used for countless desktop software applications or web sites that have a user-editable hierarchy, including drag & drop for moving either nodes or containers, rename (in place) of nodes or containers, and reflection of the node title in the title of the content at right.

The feed of aggregated information displayed to the user in a stream of activity.

How to design a good pricing table for a SaaS app.

Accordion menu combined with normal pagination. More info here:http://uxmovement.com/design-articles/accordion-pagination-a-faster-smoother-way-to-paginate

Mutton is a menu and a button combined. More here: http://hanamidesign.com/blog/ux-pattern-mutton-menu-button/

An administration page for viewing groups, adding a group, viewing group members, adding users, adding users to the group, giving roles (or permissions) to those users

A way to display a list of about 1000 - 6000 items. Can Select one or more. As well as being able to un-select them as well.

perhaps this is similar to dashboard but i would like to see the whole design because administration page design is quite complicated especially if you deal with lots of data ( such as e-commerce )

A block of high-level information with multiple tabs, for displaying a lot of information in a small space, often with links to the full data. As found on the Wall Street Journal and similar sites.

This is an interesting solution for Header, but it also functions as a dropdown navigation
http://www.sram.com/sram/road/products/sram-red-front-derailleur

I don't know how to describe the pattern, but it would be great to get some sort of 'best practice' for map ( googlemap ) integration with a POI description list...

Page dynamically loads images/assets when they are in the browser's field of view. Produces overall faster page loading for it does not have to load an entire page worth of assets if the user is sticking to the top portion of the page.

How buttons are to be styled, emphasized, and positioned on web

On list-based apps on touch devices such as the iPhone, the user is able to "pull" down to refresh the page http://www.usabilitypost.com/2010/07/21/pull-down-to-refresh/ Used in the official Twitter app to retrieve new tweets

Use the mouse wheel for pagination.

audio player, podcast player. single vs. playlisted