Today, given the speed of the internet, we open a website or application in the blink of an eye and receive the desired information. However, on some websites, there is a large amount of data, and it is necessary to wait, at which point we most often leave the page. Therefore, it is very important to engage a potential customer or reader to stay on your website at that crucial moment.
One way to keep your visitor on the page is through interesting, attractive, and somewhat hypnotic animations. A collection of the 10 latest and best loading animations is brought to you by Hackernoon.
1. Orb animation WIP
Designer: Aleksey Tsvetkov
A circle with a mysterious smoke effect completely calms and ‘forces’ you to look at it for a while, perfectly proving that it serves its purpose.
What can you learn?
In your design, you can create such circles or columns with smoke effects. Of course, it is better to place a black background to enhance the white smoke effects, if possible. Such an animation design is extremely mysterious and attractive.
2. Personalized animations
Designer: Nick Buturishvili
This loading animation is specifically designed for a brewery’s website. The designer of this animation perfectly combines product features and creates an animation that represents the beer production process. This not only can spark user interest and reduce their frustration (when they have to wait for content to open), but it also allows users to learn more about the company and its products in a vivid and intuitive way.
What can you learn?
In the design of loading animations, you can combine the content of the page, company, or product to enhance the user experience and ultimately increase sales or visits to the page. For example, in addition to displaying the production process in your design, you can dynamically showcase the best products, company photos, employees, interesting events…
3. Tone gradation
Designer: Vitaly Silkin
This loading animation tries to attract the user’s attention by transmitting circles in order. Simple and effective. Moreover, the use of color gradations makes the entire animation more beautiful and pleasant to the eye. A good attempt to keep users on the page.
What can you learn?
In your design, you can use a similar transformation of the position of different graphics back and forth, right and left, as well as up and down in the appropriate order. In short, a clean and simple graphic animation can also be fun and attractive.
4. ‘Bounce’ – B & W loading animation
Designer: Lilian Tedone
Although this simple loading animation contains only two geometric shapes, a circle and a square, that bounce and rotate, it does not mean that it is bad and boring. Quite the opposite! With an excellent combination of shapes and movements, this design is very nice and attractive. Of course, it is another good way for users to enjoy waiting.
What can you learn?
In your design, you can also be inspired by this animation and try to use different shapes with dynamic effects or with changes in color and shadow. It is useful to enhance the visual effects of your design.
5. Melting animation
Designer: Vitaly Silkin
The animation with a slow-motion effect moving forward and a melting effect is truly calming and very inspiring. On a darker background, the animation in light blue stands out.
What can you learn?
When creating such an animation for a website or application, you can adopt similar liquid shapes, such as a drop of water or an ice cube, to make your design as interesting as possible.
6. Loading things
Designer: UI8
A simple and unobtrusive design with a 3D effect and rings makes the entire animation hypnotic and modern.
What can you learn?
So, as with this design, you can also adopt a similar pattern of animation that is variable and flexible. Intuitive 3D technology enhances the visual effects of your loading animation.
7. Preloader Animation
Designer: Rodetyo Prast
This loading animation is truly ideal for some online education targeted at children, especially some painting courses, online shopping, and similar websites or applications during Christmas.
What can you learn?
So, you can choose a festival theme and appropriately add some elements, such as festival customs, stories, events, and typical characters, to create a much more interesting and recognizable animation.
If possible, also combine features of the website, products, or applications to make the overall design unique and useful. In short, regardless of which illustration you choose, they are good attempts to keep the user’s attention and ease their anxiety when they have to wait for data to load.
8. Loading screen visual for app
Designer: Nguyen Tran
The loading animation is specifically designed for mobile applications. This animation displays a light blue globe and a progress bar in motion on a black background. Such a color contrast creates a sci-fi visual effect, which is totally ‘cool’ and modern.
What can you learn?
So you can also use similar color contrasts and add a progress bar to create a fantastic visual effect for your animation and inform the user how much longer they need to wait.
9. Spiral geometry
Designer: Danny Perry
Rotating colored shapes is already cool and impressive in itself, and when you add more rotating patterns and colors, the entire loading animation could be totally attractive.
What can you learn?
You can use more colors and design more rotating patterns to make your loading animation more impressive and recognizable.
10. Glowing cube
Designer: Graig Mederios
In this animation, the logo and the shape of the cube alternate, which eventually disappears. The brilliant effect of such a 3D logo is an effective way to keep the visitor’s attention on the page.
What can you learn?
In your design, you can combine the company logo, product, and geometric shape.
Loading animations on a page are an important element for creating a web interface or application. Animation plays a crucial role in enhancing the user experience and keeps users engaged for a longer time. Therefore, in design, it is better to utilize creative loading animations to improve the user experience on the page or application. These ten creative animations can serve as inspiration for your page.
