Circles Are Cool

It's pretty much a fact of life. The sky is blue, cows say moo and circles are cool. Curves just make things flow better because they don't mess around with any of this 'corners' nonsense. And so I found so pictures of already existing interfaces that revolve around circles to get some more ideas on layout and shape;

Whatever is going on here it looks cool. Why? Because it's composed of circles. Circles within circles!

I like the layout of this one for something like a primary menu, with smaller transparent tabs or buttons to select. The brightness of the centre draws focus to it as it uses the brightest colours (tinted white) but it is also the most solid part of the menu.

This shows how something like buttons could be used in tandem with a rotating slider or something. The wider the range of movements used in the interaction, the more interesting the user's experience will be.

There's something about the simplicity of this one that I like. Perhaps the drop-down menus could be attributed to different colours that become more dominant when selected.

I like the idea of using a trail of footprints as a loading bar. So here are some pictures of icon prints, however, I don't think a trail of kisses would be appropriate.

I also started looking into colour schemes as well. Considering it's a navigation system we're designing for it is expected that at some point the user will be outside so a 'natural' colour scheme could look rather cool. The second image shows how brighter, but still natural colours could be used.

And considering it's Victoria University a cityscape colour scheme would also be appropriate. Looking at some picture of cities they tend to be somewhat grey. The odd blue highlight could spice things up a little bit though.