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
These all sound really cool! Have you read Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing? It's in the design/implementation oral history niche, focusing on Windows
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Replying to @quartzen
Oh yeah, I love that blog/book! Probably indirectly inspired my idea. :·)
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