Your UI isn’t a Disney Movie

My previous short article about gratuitous animation really struck a chord with people. The response has been phenomenal and it’s been awesome reading others’ frustrations with overly animated UIs. To be clear, I’m not anti motion design for UIs. Far from it. I have a problem with animation that serves only to get in the way of the end user. One of the clearest signs of a competent UI designer is

[izm_11]

ディズニー映画みたいなUIアニメーションやめろだ…

[nekobato]

どのサイトだって魔法の国になれるのよ

[hashrock]

もやもや思ってたことを言語化してくれた感だ

[teracy_junk]

『Animation is like cursing. If you overuse it, it loses all its impact.』