This is a lesson from long ago, one that I learned from the veryfirst Amiga word processor. This word processor's mouse busy-cursoranimation was of a bird leisurely flapping its wings; because theoriginal Amiga was kind of slow, people wound up seeing this animationfairly often. Several years after the Amiga was released, I wound uptalking to one of the people who had designed this (she was my HCI teacher) and she asked me whether us actual Amiga users had liked thebusy cursor;