iOS Notifications in Motion

In the past I’ve explored iOS notifications that never go away, tally mark notifications, and Roman numeral notifications. I thought that I had completely exhausted this as a conceptual avenue down which to venture.

I was wrong.

As I plummed the depths of my mind to find another concept, I looked at the unread notifications on my phone. Something recently reminded me of the old DVD loader screen that bounces around the screen. This got me wondering. What if notifications did the same thing? Also, what if they moved faster the more unread notifications you had?

Playing this tape forward, you would quickly arrive at a state where you have multiple red dots ping-ponging around your screen at a rapid pace. The worst part would be not knowing which notification indicator is tied to which app. I guess you could have entire apps moving around, but this was a bit too hard to animate considering that I do this daily.

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