While we didn’t quite get to the special iPhone hardware accelerated CSS animations, jQuery pulled through just fine to add a touch of visual pizzaz to the animation. A simple fadeout adds a lot to the experience.
Here’s a little movie:
We’re still playing with the visual parameters, but the right animation should help “burn in” the blips to their recipients brains. Word recognition is, in psycho babble terms, automatic — involuntary, without conscious control. The tagline candidate, “pre-attentive reality hacking” refers to the inability of persons with visual focus on your iphone for the message duration to not perceive it’s meaning.
