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    Transitions, timing and their impact on UX

    A very interesting read (with examples) on interface usability, and how it can improved with animation. Pasquale convincingly argues that animation isn’t just a tool for visual embellishment, but can help the brain understand cause and effect in an interface.

     https://medium.com/design-ux/926eb80d64e3

    Thanks Matt!

    M. x

     

    usability user experience design animation transition 

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    This Exquisite Forest: Crowdsourcing an animated story, like the game of Chinese Whispers

    This Exquisite Forest is an interactive digital project by Director, Chris Milk and Google Lab’s Aaron Koblin. Users can create their own animations added to a trail and in response to animations already submitted. These are then visualised as trees in a ‘forest’ of animations of stories. 

    Have a play with the website at http://www.exquisiteforest.com/

    M. x

     

    Crowdsource animation website web design google google labs storytelling 

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    How a small town emerged from an iPhone - Los Angeles-based 3D artist Mike Ko produced this cute little live action animation as his graduation project from Otis College of Art & Design. Titled iPhone Diorama, and taking around three months to complete, watch as buildings spring from the phone’s glass screen as a car skids around a corner. So adorable. 

    M. x

    Source: PSFK

     

    3D animation iPhone