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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@kfury did the butter bar (named after it's buttery yellow color in original Gmail) -
We still called it that at Medium internally, guessing because of
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Wait, is that what it was called?
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I merely extended, modified, and abused those patterns ;)
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My claims to fame from that era were the Google Finance charts and the odd checkbox in a button for Gmail's select all menu.
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