Bulk Import: loading UX while importing is not communicated explicitly enough

As a developer the UX for bulk importing assets is confusing upon opening the window.

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The three dots are meant to indicate loading state, but this collides with Material design on modern websites where a three-dot (meatballs) component is meant to bring up a details menu with more actions.

The text above doesn’t really imply this either (“Imported” rather than “Importing”…), and the Import button is greyed out. Overall I have to put some question marks on how the UX was thought out here. The only call to action I see here is hitting the meatballs menu to perform some action, but this is not what I’m meant to do as a user (I have to wait instead).

It would be more obvious that the asset is in an importing state if a clearer loading icon was used, if the loading icon was animated, or if the text alluded to the fact stuff is being imported as we speak.

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