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
Butter Bars and Toasts? rotating Pizza mouse pointer? For the latter I think you're talking about the spinning pinwheel cursor that represents "loading", but I have no idea what the former is referring to. and I use Gmail!
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Butter Bar is the thing at the top that tells you archived a conversation, but you can still undo. It’s a bar. It’s yellow – or at least it used to be. Toast is the chat window. It pop ups from the bottom right, like a toast. (Both are internal codenames.)
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huh. I never would've thought to call them that, thanks for the explanation!
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@kfury did the butter bar (named after it's buttery yellow color in original Gmail)1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes -
We still called it that at Medium internally, guessing because of
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(Or some shared library.)
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It was no longer yellow. The name was delightfully confusing for everyone around.
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…and that confusion in turn gave me the book idea. :·]
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