When I saw the below demo I thought "neat, how'd they do that"? That may sound surprising if you knew that I wrote the API for this. In this article I'll describe how three orthogonal features, generic navigation, event triggers and keyframe tracks come together to produce this pleasing animation.
The following manifesto represents my answer to the question — “As a UX or UI, designer, how do I know when and where to implement motion to support usability?”
Motion design is a necessary skill for the modern web. With web animation thriving, everyone from UX designers to front-end developers needs an appreciation for what motion can add to their work.
With a huge variate of excellent iOS apps, macOS tools, and well-crafted websites, people have a certain quality bar. By default, users expect a fast reaction from the digital products they’re working with.
Cuberto . is a UI/UX and development studio based in San Francisco, CA. I might be a little late in the game but they have shared an inspiring and interesting collection of 'open source' of animated micro-interactions for your mobile app design. Trust me, these are great! It's a combination of transitions combining small animations but also more 'complexed' results where you will have many actions like 'dragging a value' with a flair, 'revising the UI shadow' merged with an intuitive interaction on 'tap'. I took the liberty to share them on ABDZ alongside with their direct link to the GitHub source file for your reference. Give it a look!
The importance of animation and motion in user experience is something that can no longer be denied. Animation has come a long way since it made its first baby steps. It used to be all about fun. Animation was used to make someone laugh, smile or simply wonder. It was merely meant to delight and entertain.
Let’s have a look CSS @keyframes animations, and specifically about how you can pause and otherwise control them. There is a CSS property specifically for it, that can be controlled with JavaScript, but there is plenty of nuance to get into in the details. We’ll also look at my preferred way of setting this up which gives lots of control. Hint: it involves CSS custom properties.
We’re going to cut straight to the chase. Modern browsers can animate four things really cheaply: position, scale, rotation and opacity. If you animate anything else, it’s at your own risk, and the chances are you’re not going to hit a silky smooth 60fps.
How do we animate interfaces in ways that are not just beautiful, but meaningful? When we add motion to interfaces, we want to in one way or another improve the user experience, be it through aiding the comprehension of a concept, setting the mood, enhancing the perception of speed, or directing attention. Regardless of the intent of the animation, when animations fail to be meaningful, a common cause is that they simply tween between their hidden and visible states, rather than visualizing the actions that triggered the change of state. A window rarely just closes or opens; a message is sent, a draft is discarded, an item is used.
Creating Usability with Motion: The UX in Motion Manifesto
Keyframe animation for UI with navigation
Creating Usability with Motion: The UX in Motion Manifesto
Animista
A beginner's guide to designing interface animations | Creative Bloq
CSS3 Loading Animation
What Disney’s Classic Animation Principles Could Teach Web Designers
Everything you need to know about Loading Animations
GitHub Open Source Collection of Animated Micro-Interactions
Importance of Functional Animation in UX - Qode Interactive
LottieFiles - Free animation files built for Lottie
How to Play and Pause CSS Animations with CSS Custom Properties | CSS-Tricks
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A micro-animations library
8,800+ Animated Icons - Lordicon
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Meaningful Motion with Action-Driven Animation | Tobias Ahlin
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https://utilitybend.com/blog/animations-and-transitions-from-and-to-display-none-with-at-starting-st Animations and transitions from and to display none with @starting-style | utilitybend