Study 02 · A vocabulary of movement
Things that
feel alive.
Breath, drift, elastic response and a ripple of attention. Six translations of Sourdine’s living rings into text and controls, with enough restraint to keep the message readable.
Motion is running. Your system preference takes priority.
01 / Attention
A word with a pulse.
Quiet, independent phases draw the eye without shaking the sentence.
Use for one important word. Scale stays close to 1, and the layout never moves.
02 / Discovery
Light passing through.
A soft highlight crosses a phrase. The underlying text stays dark.
taking shape.Drifting highlight
Use on a short reveal or a new capability, not a whole article.
03 / Processing
Waiting, with a heartbeat.
The glow breathes; the status stays still. Completion is explicit.
Local state demonstration. No generation request is running.
04 / Acknowledgement
Give the action some give.
A brief compression, a small overshoot, then a quick settling.
Tap the large button. The idea is kept only in this page.
05 / Progression
One gesture, many parts.
A wave reaches each item in turn, like Sourdine’s delayed ring responses.
A one-shot sequence. It does not imply background work.
06 / Continuity
Move the emphasis.
One selection surface flows between stable labels. Change your mind mid-flight.
Calm selected. Arrow keys work inside the control.