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Making lil’ me
15.7.2020
Cassie Evans made a lovely illustration of herself and then used Greensock to add a flourish of animations to polish it off. Cassie wrote a series of posts about how she did it:
In this post we’ll cover how to get values from the mouse movement and plug them into an animation. This is...
UI Interactions & Animations Roundup #8
29.6.2020
A new collection of UI animation shots that summarizes the latest creative trends.
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UI Interactions & Animations Roundup #7
1.6.2020
Some modern UI animation shots to keep you up-to-date with the freshest trends.
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UI Interactions & Animations Roundup #6
14.5.2020
A hand-picked collection of superb UI inspiration from the past weeks.
UI Interactions & Animations Roundup #6 was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops
UI Interactions & Animations Roundup #5
27.3.2020
The new collection of recent UI works to keep your creative flow going.
UI Interactions & Animations Roundup #5 was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops
4 Ways to Animate the Color of a Text Link on Hover
3.3.2020
Let’s create a pure CSS effect that changes the color of a text link on hover… but slide that new color in instead of simply swapping colors.
There are four different techniques we can use to do this. Let’s look at those while being mindful of important things, like accessibility, performance,...
UI Interactions & Animations Roundup #4
2.3.2020
A fresh dose of inspiration to get you updated on the latest UI animation and interaction trends.
UI Interactions & Animations Roundup #4 was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops
UI Interactions & Animations Roundup #3
10.2.2020
The latest collection of interesting and modern UI interaction and animation concepts.
UI Interactions & Animations Roundup #3 was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops
UI Interactions & Animations Roundup #2
25.1.2020
Some selected shots of great UI interactions and animation for your inspiration.
UI Interactions & Animations Roundup #2 was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops
UI Interactions & Animations Roundup #1
4.1.2020
The first roundup that collects inspirational UI interactions and animations.
UI Interactions & Animations Roundup #1 was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops
CSS prefers-reduced-motion Media Query
30.7.2019
When I started in the web development industry, media queries were limited — screen and print were the two media queries I was most often using. More than a decade later, media queries have advanced to various screen units, feature checking, and even color scheme preference. I’ve been...
Creating Animations Using React Spring
4.6.2019
Have you ever needed animation in your React application? Traditionally, implementing animation has not an easy feat to accomplish. But now, thanks to Paul Henschel, we there’s a new React tool just for that. react-spring inherits from animated and react-motion for interpolations, optimized...
Integrating Third-Party Animation Libraries to a Project
14.5.2019
Creating CSS-based animations and transitions can be a challenge. They can be complex and time-consuming. Need to move forward with a project with little time to tweak the perfect transition? Consider a third-party CSS animation library with ready-to-go animations waiting to be used. Yet, you might...
Making Movies With amCharts
16.1.2019
In this article, I want to show off the flexibility and real power of amCharts 4. We’re going to learn how to combine multiple charts that run together with animations that form a movie experience. Even if you’re only interested in creating a different kind of animation that has nothing to do with...
Toggling Animations On and Off
9.1.2019
A nicely detailed tutorial by Kirupa that gets into how you might provide a UI with persisted options that control whether animations run or not.
The trick is custom properties that control the movement:
body {
--toggle: 0;
--playState: "paused";
}
Which are used within animations...
Storing and Using the Last Known Route in Vue
2.1.2019
There are situations where keeping a reference to the last route a user visited can come in handy. For example, let’s say we’re working with a multi-step form and the user proceeds from one step to the next. It would be ideal to have the route of that previous step in hand so we know where the user...
Ease-y Breezy: A Primer on Easing Functions
18.12.2018
During the past few months, I’ve been actively teaching myself how to draw and animate SVG shapes. I’ve been using CSS transitions, as well as tools like D3.js, react-motion and GSAP, to create my animations.
One thing about animations in general and the documentation these and other animation...
Create the Google Button Effect with CSS
27.7.2018
I always found Google’s branding simple but grew to realize that was the beauty in their design; there’s something about “just enough” that is the perfect balance between bland and over the top. GMail’s design grew old over the years and Google just got around...
Native-Like Animations for Page Transitions on the Web
23.4.2018
Some of the most inspiring examples I’ve seen of front-end development have involved some sort of page transitions that look slick like they do in mobile apps. However, even though the imagination for these types of interactions seem to abound, their presence on actual sites that I visit do not....