Motion UI Design

Motion UI Design

What is motion design? It's the magic that brings your interfaces to life and makes UI changes feel natural. A curated collection of resources, software, libraries, videos and articles related to motion UI design, UI animations and transitions. Feel free to add something interesting (todo inside) by pull request!

Resources for inspiration

Sites

• Tympanus codrops – Interactive demos and experiments.
• Codyhouse – Interactive demos and experiments.
• Dribbble – Animated shots category on Dribbble.
• Codepen – HTML/CSS/JS sandbox.
• Give ’n’ Go – A curated gallery of Dribbble shots reworked as interactive CodePen pens.
• Awwwards – Examples of websites with animation.
• cssanimation.rocks – CSS animated demos.
• ui-animations.tumblr.com – Animations in software user interfaces.
• hoverstat.es – A collection of interesting web sites curated by Animade studio.
• appealing. – A collection of mobile transitions and animations.

Pinterest boards

• Gestures, transitions, animations by Yuri Vetrov.
• Web UI animation by JRMY LFBV.
• UX/UI interaction & Motion design by Matthieu Lerat.
• Animated UX/UI by Julien Tilly.
• Motion UI by CodeDesign.

Processing and other weird but funny stuff

• Bees & bombs – Processing experiments by Dave Whyte.
• PATAKK – Processing experiments by Paolo Zagreb.
• dvdp – Visual chinatown by davidope.
• bigblueboo – 3d and processing experiments by Charlie Deck.
• Misha Kvakin – Cinema4D and UI experiments.

Articles

• How fast should your UI animations be? by @valhead.
• Getting started with UI motion design by @Molly Lafferty.
• A Designer’s Guide to Perceived Performance by @Luke Jones.
• How to Use Animation to Improve UX by @Nick Babich.
• How To Use Animations and Motion in Web Design by @PageCloud.
• UI Animation: Eye-Pleasing, Problem-Solving by @Tubik Studio.
• UI Motion Design — The Compendium by @Thalion.
• Creating Usability with Motion: The UX in Motion Manifesto by @Issara Willenskomer.
• Jedi Principles of UI Animation by @Adaptive Path.
• Micro Interaction; great experience for user engagement by @Sneha Munot.
• UI Animation. Microinteraction for Macroresult by @Tubik Studio.
• The Principles of UX Choreography by @Rebecca Ussai Henderson.

Software

Software for producing UI animations, grouped by technology and output format (video, prototype, code, etc.) — with links to must-see tutorials and plugins.

Video, gif, presentation

• Adobe After Effects – The industry-standard animation and creative compositing app lets you design and deliver professional motion graphics and visual effects for film, TV, video and web:
• Using After Effects for UI Animation Prototypes ( video).
• UI Animation tutorials.
• How to Use After Effects for Web Animation Prototypes ( video).
• MtMograph summits ( video).
• After Effects CC Essential Training on Lynda ( video).
• BodyMovin – Converter from AE to SVG/canvas.
• Squall – Converter from AE to iOS.
• Apple Motion – MacOS app for creating and editing motion graphics, titling for video and film production, and 2D/3D compositing for visual effects.
• Adobe Photoshop – Raster graphics editor that can also produce gif UI animations.
• Adobe Flash – Software for creating vector graphics, animations, games, etc.
• Apple Keynote – MacOS app for presentations, but also great for high-fidelity animations and prototypes:
  • How To Prototype UI Animations In Keynote.

Visual programming

• Quartz Composer – MacOS app with a node-based visual programming language for prototyping MacOS/iOS apps (discontinued by Apple):
• The 4 Minute Guide to Quartz Composer ( video).
• Introducing Origami for QC.
• Origami Studio – A tool for creating modern UI by Facebook.
• Principle For Mac – MacOS app for creating animated, interactive user interfaces.
• Floid – MacOS interaction design tool for any platform & device (Web, iOS, Android).

HTML, CSS and JavaScript

• Framer – Tool for prototyping animations and interactive UI.
• Your first prototype with framer.
• Tumult Hype – MacOS app for creating HTML/CSS sites, banners, presentations, etc.
• Adobe Animate – App for creating HTML/CSS sites, banners, presentations, etc.:
• Prototyping UI Animation.
• Google web designer – HTML-based designs and motion graphics.
• Animatron – Web app for creating animations, banners, and infographics.
• SpiritJS – Animation tool for the web (still in development).
• Any HTML/CSS editor, libraries ;)

And, of course, your secret weapon — pen and paper!

Helpers

• easings.net – Easing functions cheat sheet.
• cubic-bezier.com – Cubic-bezier visual tool.
• csstriggers.com – List of CSS properties that trigger repaint, reflow, or compositing.

Libraries

• Web Animation Infographics – Great (but old) infographic with libraries by used technology.
• Bouncy Ball – Comparing animation techniques by showing how to bounce a ball with each one.

CSS

• Animate.css – Collections of CSS animations.
• Effeckt.css – Collections of UI animations.
• Bounce.js – Tool for generating CSS keyframe animations from JS easing functions.
• Animations.css - Collection.
• Magic animations – Collection.
• UI buttons – Collection of buttons.
• Hover.css – Hover effects.
• Morf – Transitions with custom easing functions.
• Awesome CSS3 animations – Library of animations.
• All Animation – Set of fun animations to make your project sexier.
• Mantra – Tool for creating keyframes animation.

JavaScript

• GreenSock – Ultra high-performance, professional-grade animation for the modern web.
• Velocity.js – Accelerated JavaScript animation.
• Impulse – High-performance interactions for mobile web.
• AniJS – Animations by declared data-attributes.
• Snabbt.js – Minimalistic animation library in JavaScript.
• Processing.js – JavaScript library for Processing visual programming language.
• Dynamics.js – JavaScript library to create physics-based animations.
• Mo.js – Motion graphics toolbelt for the web.
• AnimateTransition – Library for transition of blocks and popups.
• Animate Plus – CSS and SVG animation library for modern browsers, performant and lightweight (3KB gzipped), making it particularly well-suited for mobile.
• Gravitas.js – Super fast physics simulations for JavaScript.
• Popmotion – JavaScript motion engine that makes creating engaging user interactions quick and simple.
• anime.js - Lightweight JavaScript animation library.
• useAnimations - Micro-animation icon library.

SVG

• SnapSVG — JavaScript library makes working with your SVG assets as easy as jQuery makes working with the DOM.
  • How to Manipulate and Animate SVG With Snap.svg
• BonsaiJS – Lightweight graphics library with intuitive graphics API and SVG renderer.
• Vivus.js – Allows you to animate SVGs, giving them the appearance of being drawn.
• Walkway.js – Easy way to animate SVG images consisting of line, path, and polyline elements.
• Transformicons – Animated icons, symbols and buttons using SVG and CSS.

Web animation performance

• Jankfree.org – Collection of articles and presentations about browser performance.
• High performance animations.
• How to Create Smoother Animations and Transitions in the Browser.

Speeches, presentations, videos

• Interface Animations (Mark Geyer) – Workshop on BlendConf 2014.
• The future of UX – Animation on the Brain (Rachel Nabors).
• Designing Complex SVG Animations (Sarah Drasner, Trulia).
• Designing with animation (Pasquale D'Silva) ( video).
• Animating Web Experiences (John Allsopp) ( video).
• Putting Your UI in Motion (Val Head) ( video).
• Motion design with CSS (Val Head) ( video).
• Lets move! (Benjamin De Cock, Stripe) ( video).
• Styling and Animating Scalable Vector Graphics with CSS (Sara Soueidan) ( video).
• Animating the User Experience (Rachel Nabors) ( video).
• Designing meaningful animation (Val Head) ( video).
• Functional Animation (Sarah Drasner) ( video).
• Animations anew - laziness, arrogance and intolerance (Andrey Sitnik) ( Russian language).

Newsletters, podcasts, screencasts

• The UI Animation Newsletter – Newsletter with resources plus helpful advice on how to make web animation work for you, by @valhead.
• Motion and meaning – Podcast about motion for digital designers by @valhead and Cennydd Bowles.
• All The Right Moves – Animation reviews by @valhead.

Guidelines

• Android
• Material design guidelines: Motion
• MacOS
• Human Interface Guidelines: Motion
• Windows
  • Motion in Windows apps

Books

• Animation in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Futureproof Web Design Techniques. Interaction Design & Complex Animations by @UXPin.
• Designing Interface Animations by @valhead.

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