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.
I think that’d be the exact challenge: to make it relevant. I’m sure there are interaction patterns/approaches/lessons here that are universal. Perhaps you go back further in time, and next chapter do an oral history of something very new
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(If it’s just nostalgia fest, I don’t think it’d be particularly interesting.)
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Imagine how much you could learn about (and get excited about) text input processing from reading about the vision + details + bugs + successes of something like Omnibox or Google Suggest.
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