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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It always felt to me like the perfect example of something you never notice that took a lot of effort and smarts to get right, sandwiched in the UI world between a whole bunch of half-assed stuff, and a lot of stuff that’s just for showing off.
9:06 PM - 10 Jan 2018
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