famous loading spinner widget

[flipside]

built most of this for a capptivate so I figured I'd share it

[dmvaldman]

We're setting up a repository for community views and widgets. This would make a great addition. I'll keep you in the loop on that. Thanks.

[andrewdeandrade]

@flipside Also, one design direction you may want to take instead of creating a generic spinner is to use all the physics and animation goodies famous gives you and use them to create more interesting transitions that don't make the user feel like they are waiting.

For example, in Google Earth, the anticipation crouch, to blast off into space on a parabolic path to the follow-through landing are all animations that essentially perform the task of a "spinner" (i.e. make the user wait while something loads), but instead of it being a negative experience (i.e. "I'm obviously waiting"), they turn it into a positive experience.

Everywhere you use your spinner, you might want to consider designing a delightful transition that only falls back to the spinner at the end if the load time is greater than the animation duration.

[MylesBorins]

ping @dmvaldman

[MylesBorins]

hey @flipside can you move this to famous/famous referencing this issue?