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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Replying to @mwichary
The indeterminate progress indicator of Apples OSes used to be called “throbber” both internally and officially in material like the HIG.pic.twitter.com/VCDecnboXe
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Yeah, I feel those almost completely wiped out indeterminate progress bars.pic.twitter.com/TX2UUyCkUV
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(Also, both of these GIFs are stressing me out.)
10:41 AM - 9 Dec 2018
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