Book idea: Oral histories of common UI design elements and conventions: Gmail’s Butter Bars and Toasts, rotating pizza mouse pointer, pull-to-refresh, Cut/Copy/Paste, double clicking, Ctrl-Tab, slide to unlock. Context surrounding them at the time + today’s perspective.
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Book idea: Stories of encoding challenges throughout computing: Things that went wrong because one part of the system escaped things differently than another – but written for a non-technical (or not-really-technical) audience.
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Replying to @mwichary
WTF is a butter bar?
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Butter Bar is the thing at the top that tells you archived a conversation, but you can still undo. It’s a bar. It’s yellow – or at least it used to be.
Toast is the chat window. It pop ups from the bottom right, like a toast.
(Both are internal codenames.)
7:50 PM - 9 Nov 2018
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