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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Gotcha! Imagining like a searchable listserv archive w/ Wikipedia talk style debate about each char. If only :) Re: general history the book Shady Characters looks awesome but ofc limited to a few. For some of the really obscure ones…could be fun to invent fictional histories
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Shady Characters is great! If you want to learn about emoji, definitely take a listen: http://macintosh.fm/emoji
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