This last week I was taking a look at the different ways my computer could tell me that a process is going on: bouncing icons, progress indicators, splash images, but above all “spinning” things. It seems in fact that clockwise animations are the most common way of showing the concept of waiting. see this experiment

This is one of my early attempt to use 3d with depth of field. The original idea was to build a liquid-like menu for a mobile device interface. Actually none of the items are clickable but I am happy to leave this experiment as it is: at that time I was quite impressed to find [...]