4/25/19 Update: We recently wrote a post on how to more easily include animation in your own designs with a guide on how to animate icons with CSS. Of the trends I identified in our recent post on what to expect for the web in 2015, animation is among the most important. But the purpose of the post was a high-level overview of what’s next in web design — more about the what than the why — and this
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