animation

UI as a sales pitch - Animated interfaces?

Hi all,

I just caught this article on Wired, entitled "Kiss Boring Interfaces
Goodbye With Apple's New Animated OS"

http://www.wired.com/software/coolapps/news/2007/06/core_anim

The discussion in the article, which is largely about the UI advances
the Core Animation feature of Leopard will make possible, reminded me
of the discussion we've been having about how the iPhone ads are
touting the UI as a feature and how novel that is.

My general attitude towards this article is one of cautious
skepticism, like

Thoughts about animations/transitions in GUI

Thoughts about animations/transitions in GUIs

I'm at the moment studding animations in GUI's .

///1.
I hope that the list can provide me with some thoughts about the use
of animations/transitions in GUI’s.

///2.
And I hope that the list can help finding relevant literature/papers/
sites that have worked with this issue.

I belive that animations have a unique function as an element that
can provide GUI with both functional and esthetic features,

The mid nineteens discussion about the use of Flash in websites is
not the aim, (-: as I'm very interested in the greater aspects o