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Simple CSS Line Hover Animations for Links
10.2.2021
A couple of simple & subtle CSS-based line hover animations for links.
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UI Interactions & Animations Roundup #14
5.2.2021
Some selected animation shots that explore experimental and modern ideas for interactions on the web.
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Rotating Loading Animation of 3D Shapes with Three.js
3.2.2021
Some rubber-like 3D shape rotations that are perfect for loading animations.
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How to Play and Pause CSS Animations with CSS Custom Properties
21.1.2021
Let’s have a look CSS @keyframes animations, and specifically about how you can pause and otherwise control them. There is a CSS property specifically for it, that can be controlled with JavaScript, but there is plenty of nuance to get …
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On-Scroll Letter Animations
20.1.2021
A small set of examples showing how letters can be animated on scroll.
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Svelte and Spring Animations
8.1.2021
Spring animations are a wonderful way to make UI interactions come to life. Rather than merely changing a property at a constant rate over a period of time, springs allow us to move things using spring physics, which gives the …
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The End of Adobe Flash
4.1.2021
I come to bury Flash, not to praise it, writes Matt May in this excellent thread about the end of Adobe Flash. Not so long ago, web designers used Flash to create striking visuals and animations and games. But …
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Custom Styles in GitHub Readme Files
23.12.2020
Even though GitHub Readme files (typically ./readme.md) are Markdown, and although Markdown supports HTML, you can’t put <style> or <script> tags init. (Well, you can, they just get stripped.) So you can’t apply custom styles there. Or can you?
You can use SVG as...
UI Interactions & Animations Roundup #13
20.12.2020
A fresh set of trendy UI interactions and animations for your inspiration.
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How to Use the Locomotive Scroll for all Kinds of Scrolling Effects
16.12.2020
I was recently looking for a way to perform scrolling effects on a project and I stumbled on the Locomotive Scroll library. It lets you perform a variety of scrolling effects, like parallax and triggering/controlling animations at scroll points.
You might also call it a “smooth scrolling” library...
Lots of Ways to Use Math.random() in JavaScript
30.11.2020
Math.random() is an API in JavaScript. It is a function that gives you a random number. The number returned will be between 0 (inclusive, as in, it’s possible for an actual 0 to be returned) and 1 (exclusive, as in, it’s not possible for an actual 1 to be returned).
Math.random(); // returns...
Image Stack Intro Animation
24.11.2020
Two simple intro animations where an image stack moves to become a grid.
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UI Interactions & Animations Roundup #12
17.11.2020
Some fresh UI interaction and animation concepts for your inspiration.
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Parsing Markdown into an Automated Table of Contents
13.11.2020
A table of contents is a list of links that allows you to quickly jump to specific sections of content on the same page. It benefits long-form content because it shows the user a handy overview of what content there is with a convenient way to get there.
This tutorial will show you how to parse...
How Film School Helped Me Make Better User Experiences
12.11.2020
Recently, I finished a sixty-day sprint where I posted hand-coded zombie themed CSS animation every day. I learned a lot, but it also took me back to film school and reminded me of so many things I learned about storytelling, cinematography, and art.
Turns out that much of what I learned back then...
Libraries for SVG Drawing Animations
11.11.2020
In 2013, Jake Archibald introduced this cool trick of animating an SVG path to look like it’s drawing itself. It’s 2020 now, and the trick is still popular. I’ve seen it on a lot of websites I’ve visited recently. I, too, feature an animated SVG loader on my website using one of the libraries I’ll...
Blockchain-Backed Election Art Sells for $66K, Animation Changes After Electoral College Decision
11.11.2020
While Americans wait for the official outcome of the electoral college, a blockchain-backed non-fungible token (NFT) called “Crossroad” will change to one of two animations featuring the 45th U.S. President Donald Trump. The animated election-based “Crossroad” NFT recently...
How to Animate the Details Element Using WAAPI
5.11.2020
Animating accordions in JavaScript has been one of the most asked animations on websites. Fun fact: jQuery’s slideDown() function was already available in the first version in 2011.
In this article, we will see how you can animate the native <details> element using the Web Animations...
Additive Animations in CSS
3.11.2020
Daniel C. Wilson explains how with CSS @keyframe animations, when multiple of them are applied to an element, they do both work. But if any properties are repeated, only the last one works. They override each other. I’ve seen this limitation overcome by applying keyframes to nested elements...
CSS in 3D: Learning to Think in Cubes Instead of Boxes
23.10.2020
My path to learning CSS was a little unorthodox. I didn’t start as a front-end developer. I was a Java developer. In fact, my earliest recollections of CSS were picking colors for things in Visual Studio.
It wasn’t until later that I got to tackle and find my love for the front end....