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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I wish I did. People have dug into a few characters like the ghost kanji https://www.dampfkraft.com/ghost-characters.html … and the more recent additions have documented rationales, but so many of the characters have no recorded history
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There was a series of episodes in the Welcome To Macintosh podcast that’s the closest to what I’d like to see tonally… but it’s (only) about emoji.
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