Real-world examples

In our modern, everyday lives, an example of the bridge pattern I can think of is from the digital economy: information products. Nowadays, the information product or infoproduct is part of the resources one can find online for training, self-improvement, or one's ideas and business development. The purpose of an information product that you find on certain marketplaces, or the website of the provider, is to deliver information on a given topic in such a way that it is easy to access and consume. The provided material can be a PDF document or ebook, an ebook series, a video, a video series, an online course, a subscription-based newsletter, or a combination of all those formats.

 

In the software realm, device drivers are often cited as an example of the bridge pattern, when the developers of an OS defines the interface for device vendors to implement it.