Val Head — Designing Interface Animation

Val Head is a web animation expert and author with a talent for getting designers and developers alike excited about the power of animation. She’s the author of Designing Interface Animation and teaches CSS Animation on lynda.com. This episode of Non Breaking Space Show is sponsored by: CSS Dev Conf — Conference dedicated to CSS and its super friend technologies like JavaScript, Sass, NPM, and more. A limited supply of Early Bird Tickets now on sale. Register now! UX Design Newsletter — A weekly free newsletter containing a collection of tutorials, articles, and videos about front-end design and development, plus tips on how to bring better engagement to the multi-device world curated by Christopher Schmitt. Sign up now! Jump to a conversation on… 2:30 Writing the preface is the worst. 4:03 Benefits of brain animation including transitions 6:07 Animation helping with perceived performance makes things seem like things are happening faster 8:01 Facebook content loading examples of perceived performance and perceived speed 9:00 Benefits of reducing content load, make it obvious what has changed on the screen 10:50 Bad form designs that take up too much of the page 12:30 Explanation of UI choreography - managing multiple animations and commonality of animations 16:09 Blocking animation is bad, it stops you from doing things while it’s animated. 17:40 Don’t hide layers people need to interact with. 20:30 Some examples of good animation that elevates the design, including brand identity. 23:31 Some examples of sites that are really good at freeze animation. 26:10 PayPal redesign compared to Stripe 28:00 How you go about thinking about instilling animation into your brand, app or website. 33:00 Recommendations on how to convince higher ups to integrate animation. 38:30 Where does someone start working more with animation? CSS? 40:02 Green Sock versus CSS. 41:02 Books or websites that would help you learn more about CSS. 42:40 What Java Script does that CSS can’t. 45:10 What’s covered in the workshops with Sarah Drasner. 46:50 How to connect or find more information about Val Head. Links: Christopher Schmitt Christopher Schmitt @teleject 📺 Val Head — Designing Interface Animation Val Head Web Animation Workshops Sarah Drasner Designing Interface Animation CSS Animations A Pocket Guide - Val Head Animation example on Stripe Stripe checkout Val Head’s Lynda courses Dudley Storey’s book on CSS GreenSock Val Head on Twitter Val’s Newsletter Non Breaking Space Show on TuneIn Non Breaking Space Show for Android Non Breaking Space Show on Google Play Non Breaking Space Show on iTunes Non Breaking Space Show on Facebook 📺 Non Breaking Space Show on YouTube Non Breaking Space Show Newsletter