Animating the User Experience
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The document discusses the role of animation in user experience (UX) design, emphasizing its potential to reduce cognitive load and enhance user attention. Key concepts include the importance of timing, types of animation (stateful transitions, supplemental animations, and causal effects), and best practices for effective implementation. It encourages designers to use animation judiciously to improve usability while avoiding overwhelming users.
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• Supplemental Anima2ons when new informa;on
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• Causal Effects when a user interacts with a page
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Animating the User Experience
- 1. The Future of UX Animation on the Brain with @RachelNabors
- 3. surgery.
- 10. THE BRAIN’S GPU Anima&on &
- 11. Dropdown courtesy of Codrops
- 12. Jump Cut From film, when the camera cuts directly to a different perspec;ve.
- 17. In-Betweening From anima;on, drawing all the poses “in between” two important poses.
- 20. “By offloading interpretation of changes to the perceptual system, animation allows the user to continue thinking about the task domain, with no need to shift contexts to the interface domain. By eliminating sudden visual changes, animation lessens the chance that the user is surprised.” Scott E. Hudson and John T. Stasko (1993)
- 24. @rachelnabors Cognitive load has a cost that rivals page load cost.
- 25. Jump Cut Site Animated Site 0 1.25 2.5 3.75 5 3 seconds 2 seconds Perceived Speed: Page Load
- 26. Jump Cut Site Animated Site 1.25 2.5 3.75 5 0.5 seconds 3 seconds 3 seconds 2 seconds Page Load Time Cognitive Load Time (“Time to Decipher”) Perceived Speed: Cogni;ve Load
- 27. @rachelnabors Do your own math. Google “KLM GOMS.”
- 29. It’s Alive! Animate Mo;on Captures A=en;on (2010) “(T)hese speeded responses appeared to be due to the perceived animacy of the objects… We conclude that animate motion does indeed capture visual attention.”
- 30. Animacy How “alive” something appears to be.
- 33. @rachelnabors If you want someone to notice something, make it bright and jiggly.
- 36. Levels of Animacy and the Cone of Vision
- 37. @rachelnabors When everything vies for our attention, we don’t know what to focus on.
- 39. @rachelnabors Animation is a visual representation of a rate of change over time. ;me loca;on
- 43. You use anima;on to indicate an element’s… Direction Solidity Momentum
- 45. rachelnabors.com
- 46. fluevog.com
- 48. rachelnabors.com
- 50. Causal Effects
- 51. rachelnabors.com
- 54. rachelnabors.com
- 59. Storyboards
- 60. Key Poses or “Keys” From anima;on, two important poses that can be in-betweened.
- 61. @rachelnabors Look for page loads, AJAX, form submissions, any time the page or its content changes.
- 62. • Stateful Transi2ons when a user changes tasks • Supplemental Anima2ons when new informa;on appears • Causal Effects when a user interacts with a page Spo]ng Keys in your product
- 63. • Causality • Feedback • Loca;on • Progression • Transi;on • Physics Does the anima;on reinforce at least two of these?
- 65. and @RachelNabors How to Not Set Everything on Fire with Motion & Animation and @RachelNabors How to Not Set Everything on Fire
- 66. –a Shaker saying “Don’t make something unless it is both necessary and useful; but if it is both necessary and useful, don’t hesitate to make it beautiful.” deligh1ul
- 67. Short and sweet…
- 68. Three ;meframes for user a_en;on 100 ms, instantaneous 1 second, still connected
- 69. Three ;meframes for user a_en;on 100 ms 1 second 10 seconds, disconnected
- 70. rachelnabors.com
- 71. –Studio anima;on rule of thumb “However long your pre-production animation, halve its duration… then halve it again.”
- 72. rachelnabors.com
- 73. @rachelnabors 250~300 ms: sweet spot for many animations
- 76. rachelnabors.com
- 78. Be invisible
- 79. I thought it was cute the first time but by the 70th… It’s annoying!
- 80. I only ever wanted to be loved…
- 83. Op;on 1: Give No;ce This site uses anima;on and mo;on. Disable it?
- 84. Op;on 2: Ask First This site uses anima;on. How would you like to experience it? Full anima;on Reduce anima;on Disable anima;on
- 85. Op;on 3: Change Se]ngs Accessibility Settings Anima;on preferences: Full anima;on Reduce anima;on Disable anima;on
- 88. @rachelnabors Use animation deliberately or not at all.
- 89. JUST REMEMBER!
- 92. Find your project’s key “frames.”
- 93. • Stateful Transi2ons • Supplemental Anima2ons • Causal Effects • Decora2on* *used sparingly The four kinds of anima;on