Light-emitting devices for indicating a wash operation of an appliance

A method of indicating a wash operation of a wash cycle of a washing machine appliance on a user interface of the washing machine appliance, the method comprising:

• initiating a wash cycle of the washing machine appliance via the user interface, the wash operation comprising at least one of a fill sequence, a spin sequence, an agitation sequence, a drain sequence, a soak sequence, or any combination thereof;
• and
• during the wash cycle, operating an arrangement of light-emitting devices on the user interface of the washing machine appliance to animate the wash operation of the wash cycle, wherein operating the arrangement of the light-emitting devices on the user interface of the washing machine appliance to animate the wash operation of the wash cycle comprises turning one or more of the light-emitting devices on and off in a manner that corresponds to the wash operation during the wash cycle,
• wherein, when the wash operation is the agitation sequence, turning one or more of the light-emitting devices on and off in the manner that corresponds to the wash operation during the wash cycle further comprises:
• beginning with the arrangement of the light-emitting devices turned off and subsequently turning on and off a plurality of subsets of the light-emitting devices in a bi-directional sequence starting with a first subset turned on and with the remaining plurality of subsets turned off, and then proceeding by consecutively turning on and off adjacent subsets along a bottom location of the user interface until turning on a second subset, creating an oscillating effect corresponding to a rotation of a wash basket of the washing machine appliance during the agitation sequence.