#8 - Motion as A Solution to Problems with Issara Willenskomer

Issara is the founder of UX in Motion, an education platform that helps UX/UI & Product Designers learn and deploy UI animation fast. Issara has spent two decades working with high impact teams at Microsoft, HBO, T-Mobile, Facebook, Twitter, Xbox, MTV, Motorola, Target, Amazon, Nordstrom, UNAIDS, IDEO, and Artefact to name a few. His in-person and virtual workshops have been attended by thousands of UX/UI & Product designers from teams at Dropbox, Airbnb, Slack, Oracle, Salesforce, Kayak, MindBody, and many more.

On this episode, we discuss a range of topics including the benefits of specialization, the priority of UX, keeping up with new generations of users, and his predictions for the impact of Lottie on the future of motion. Check out Issara's FREE LottieFiles Icon Animation Course For UX/UI & Product Designers. 

01:28 - Origin Story_
02:58 - The Moment It All Changed
05: 23 - Competing Against Amazing Teenage Designers
08:37 - Specializing in Something That is Unique To You
11:33 - Motion as a tool to solve problems
14:52 - The priority of UX
18:09 - Motion + UX
22:16 - Too much motion or not enough
22:15 - Keeping up with Gen-Z
27:31 - Lotties in the wild
29:47 - The last 6yrs of Lottie
32:12 - Predictions for Lottie
34:35 - Free LottieFiles course on UX in Motion
36:10 - Coming Soon! A course on Design Systems for Motion
38:32 - Ethics in Design
42:37 - Guest Suggestions for The LottieFiles Podcast
43:35 - Reach out to Issara