Micro-Interactions & Animation Libraries

Micro-interactions are small animations that delight our users and they are changing the way we design and build our applications. Micro-interactions have many benefits like enhancing perceived performance, indicating state change, and drawing users’ attention to something on the page. Today we’ll dive into micro-interactions and the animation libraries you can use to build them.

02:25 - What are micro-interactions?
05:48 - Why are they important?
10:55 - How do we build one?
29:07 - Animation libraries
33:16 - Shoutouts

CSS Animation Libraries
Eli Fitch’s Perceived Performance
UI Movement
Bad UI
Ladybug Performance
Scott Tolinski React Spring Course
Sarah Drasner
Hover.css
Greensock
React Spring
Framer Motion
Anime.js
Velocity
Three.js
Mo.js
Humble PI
Bon Appetit Test Kitchen

Transcript

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