Is a library of user interface and interaction design animations to help you communicate your UI ideas with people.

In anticipation of the World Cup, we sent the magazine’s contributing illustrator, Christoph Niemann, to Brazil in search of the soul of soccer. What he found instead is a curse that still hangs over the country, decades after the highly favored home team lost in the final game of the 1950 World Cup in Rio de Janeiro. In this animated storybook, Niemann meets this curse — and befriends him — and does his part to unmake that goal that has haunted Brazil for 64 years.

Фронтенд-дизайнеры и разработчики используют CSS для создания стилей, позиционирования элементов — в общем, для того, чтобы сайты выглядели красиво. Часто CSS применяют и для добавления движений на веб-страницы, хотя дело обычно не идёт дальше плавных переходов или анимации. На самом деле анимация может быть мощным инструментом, который позволяет посетителям сайта и клиентам легче взаимодействовать с интерфейсом продукта и быстрее добиваться своих целей. Этого можно достичь, если следовать в своей работе некоторым основополагающим принципам.

Earlier today I discovered an interesting way to keep (store) a CSS style on an element using CSS transitions. As far as CSS only solutions go, there are two other tricks that can be used to achieve this similar behavior: using either the :checked or the :target pseudo selectors. In this post, I’ll show you my CSS transition technique used above, followed by a slightly cooler example that I’ve been working on.

Давным давно (летом 2014), когда я усиленно работал с оформлением, передо мной возникла следующая проблема. Я хотел использовать CSS3 для создания эффекта прыгающего мячика с учетом естественных законов физики. Я прошерстил Интернет в поисках какого-нибудь способа, чтобы «вдохнуть» гравитацию в мой мячик.

A curated gallery of Dribbble shots reworked as interactive CodePen pens.

January 1976. Philadelphia Flyers v. CSKA Moscow. The Cold War. The soul of hockey at stake. Story by Dave Hollander, drawings by Stephen Halker.

DESPITE MANY YEARS OF ADVANCES in computer graphics hardware and software, and in human interface technologies' designs, and styles, our user interfaces are still primarily static' The purpose of this chapter is to review ways in which dynamic imagery and animation have been used in interfaces to date, and to sketch some ways in which they could be used to enrich the interfaces of the future. Our thesis is that current uses of animation at the interface have barely scratched the surface of what is possible and interesting.

Animated Navigation Icons with CSS3 Transforms

The purpose of Meaningful Transitions is to illustrate the process of the interaction and the structure of the user interface. They focus on specific events, or clarifying the user's interaction by animation. All transitions are divided into six categories in order to differentiate between their application. The aim is to present a scaleable collection of existing transitions. The transitions are shown in an abstract visualization to clarify their purposes, these visualizations also contain concrete examples. A closer look at a transition offers more information on the field of use, the mental model, the consistency, the cognitive benefit, and the illusion. see more

Does Animation helps build richer, more vivid, and more understandable visualizations, or simply confuse things?

In this paper, we describe an empirical investigation of the utility of several perceptual properties of motion in information-dense displays applied to notification. Notification relates to awareness and how dynamic information is communicated from the system to the user. Key to a notification technique is how easily the notification is detected and identified. Our initial studies show that icons with simple motions, termed moticons, are effective coding techniques for notification and in fact are often better detected and identified than colour and shape codes, especially in the periphery. A subsequent experiment compared the detection and distraction effects of different motion types in several task conditions. Our results reveal how different attributes of motion contribute to detection, identification and distraction and provide initial guidelines on how motion codes can be designed to support awareness in information-rich interfaces while minimizing unwanted side effects of distraction and irritation.

Celebrating animations of interest in software user interfaces.

Разработчик пользовательских интерфейсов Stripe Майкл Виллар опубликовал в своем блоге материал, в котором рассказал о том, как команда платежного стартапа смогла улучшить юзабилити форм оплаты, добавив в них элементы анимации, и привел соответствующие примеры.

Everything you need to turn ordinary photos and video clips into rich videos.

Animations are seen in many web sites throughout the Internet. Ease of use is considered as a possible reason for the growing use such multimedia feature in designing of web sites. While animations are ubiquitous in the Web environment, there is an inadequate understanding of its effect on user's attention. Animations are advantages of information technology for web designers, but important questions remain about whether animations work in all situations and for all users. Focusing on web animation, this paper reviews literature and at the end it extracts guide lines for better designing of websites.

Strategic use of animations and transitions can make your program easier to understand, feel smoother, more natural, and of higher quality, and be more engaging. But the gratuitous use of animations and transitions can make your program distracting and even annoying.

User interfaces are often based on static presentations, a model ill-suited for conveying change. Consequently, events on the screen frequently startle and confuse users.

Mads Burcharth is a designer focused on design and illustration, working out of his little studio in the heart of Denmark.

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