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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Chad sketched it all really tiny (as he does) and was like “the chats pop up and you click the titlebars to make them go back down, like whack-a-mole”. I nodded encouragingly. Then
@Zhanna and Adam Barker worked for like a year to make them great in Gmail. -
See? We’re doing this oral history RIGHT NOW.
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