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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Yeah, and pretty sure it was called the butter bar before Gmail chat.
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Yup. It was the 'notification bar' and it was either butter yellow or bright red depending on the use case. The name 'butter bar' stuck. cc
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Then there's the 'fun bar'/'awesome bar' which is a whole other story.
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Especially since there was a setting that let you disable it - "just go into settings and turn off the fun" (I think that setting was more because of the random RSS feeds than the ads)
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You could customize Web Clips by adding virtually any RSS feed, but we seeded it w/ randomness for sure. Also the fact that it lasted as long as it did shocks me to this day
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I’m Surprised It Lasted As Long As It Did is right next to We Were Supposed To Fix It Right After Launch in feature releases rule book, always, everywhere.
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