Among with many important, useful, informative and inspirational daily newsletters I usually get, I’ve recently received one from InVision which, to be honest, is rarely I can call by one of the above. This time, however, the article The 8 most important UI animations of all time sparked my interest. I don’t really think this article, in particular, is the good collection of mentioned animations nor the justification was reasonable. For example, the very first blinking cursor isn’t an animation per se. It’s the same as blinking digits when you’re changing the time on your bedside clock (do people still use them?). It seems that most reasonable would be in this case the list of most annoying loading animations of all time, which I assume authors wanted to avoid in the sake of positivity. But it made me think about what could be the most annoying waiting/loading UI animation I can recall. It turns out a lot! Despite my rich experience working on Windows and macOS the most annoying would the beachball by Apple.