I\u2019m animating a user interface video for our studio final, setting my head on the desk to rest my eyes at 45 minute intervals, squinting at keyframes milliseconds apart for hours. Ready to call it a night, I export to Media Encoder and watch the frames tick away. It\u2019s five seconds long. A dozen little hexagons flex inward, creating tension as the text on them swipes away, then they burst forward, changing color and rearranging into a new layout. It\u2019s five seconds long. Five seconds but they feel alive in that time, responsive and intelligent. In the coming week I will have to redo half of it, make it fit into a dozen other moments which will distract from it. And I know that the client will never really notice this \u2014 they won\u2019t notice the anticipation and subtleties of movement. But hopefully they\u2019ll feel it, they\u2019ll understand on some level that the transitions are graceful.<\/p>
I\u2019m delighted by that interaction, but am also struck by how different users or designers experience delight in design. The client won\u2019t be struck dumb by any cute little interaction I make, but might be by the thoughts behind it, the notion of ease and connectivity. I think of eBay or Craigslist; hideous-looking and astoundingly functional. Sometimes graphic feels like icing on the UI cake. But if I\u2019m making it I want it to look good, and I\u2019m willing to stay up late for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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