All components

A departure board — each cell flips through a few characters on hinged flaps before landing, in a left-to-right wave.

Personal data that encrypts and decrypts in place. Every character shuffles through cipher glyphs in a wave while a lock snaps shut. Hover to peek at the plain text, or click to flip it.

A spinning torus drawn in text, lit and shaded into characters every frame with the brightest in the accent. The pointer tilts it and speeds the spin.

A hand-drawn assistant whose ink lines boil like a flip-book: a round doodle, a whiskered kitty, a loopy-eared bunny or a floating ghost. It blinks when idle, goes wide-eyed to listen, draws a pencil spiral to think, and talks to speak. Ink follows the text colour.

An assistant cut from paper, with grain and soft shadows that shift in parallax: a sprout, a floppy-eared bunny, a whiskered kitty or a puffy cloud. It leans in to listen, holds its chin to think, and waves as it speaks. Click it to make it hop.

A pixel creature for an assistant: blob, ghost, bot or cat on a 32×32 grid with dithered shading and a glow. It blinks and bobs when idle, opens wide to listen, glances up with ticking dots to think, and talks and bounces to speak.