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The Interface Designer
Poetry in Motion
Movin', movin', movin', get those icons movin'...
Issue: 5.3 (March/April 2007)
Author: Toby Rush
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We've all seen them: those web sites that use so many flashing letters, dancing cowboys, and folding envelopes that it makes us seasick. Sure, seeing animation on a web site was cool the first few times, but that was a long time ago...
And yet, it is possible, even beneficial to use animation now and then on a web site or in an application. In fact, Mac OS X uses animation in so many subtle ways that it helps to define the look and feel of the operating system. The trick, of course, is to avoid just using animation for the sake of using it. Instead, we should find situations where animation is actually beneficial to the task at hand.
Mac OS X uses animation to serve three different purposes. In fact, the animation is sometimes so subtle that I'll refer to it as motion, which I think more accurately describes the approach that Apple takes. At any rate the three reasons Mac OS X has for motion are:
To show that a lengthy process is taking place. Examples of this include the filling of progress bars, spinning chasing arrows, and animated icons like the Burn CD icon in previous versions of iTunes.
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