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A lesson for us all: no matter how obvious a metaphor may seem to us, it isn't obvious to everyone.

90% sure it's called this because toast is what pops up out of a toaster.

https://dribbble.com/shots/3072186-Pop-up-toaster-motion-des...



Oh? That one never occured to me. Thanks!

ETA: If they actually behaved like that, it would help with OP's issue with them-- pop out of "the toaster", where you clicked to initate the action, so you'd be more likely to notice. Seems his complaint was in large part that they appear somewhere else. (So they're not really "toasts": At least my toaster doesn't have a teleportation function, to make the toast appear wherever the toaster designer has more or less randomly decideded it should. It just pops up the bread in the same old boring position where I know to look for it.)




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