movement of elements on a screen that can help solidify their relationship, create a visual appeal or rearrange/remove controls or information presented visually
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Why do progress bars animate backwards?
Gmail's new loading bar drew my attention to this today:
The colored pattern inside the bar animates from right to left.
The Mac OS progress bars do the same:
Is there a reason for this? If I ...
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Will animated feedback be annoying or nice?
I'm developing a website called Fablelane which allows you to write your own stories and have others contribute outcomes or "chunks" to that story.
Right now (if you go to the website), there's an ...
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Mobile pattern library with animated IxD examples? [duplicate]
Can anyone suggest a blog or pattern library that demonstrates interaction design examples? Everything I've seen to date uses static screenshots, but nothing that actually animates the interactions or ...
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Why are nested elements scrolled to the opposite direction?
My question is about scrolling conventions, and spatial scroll conventions in general (even here it's only horizontal, but same applies for vertical scrolling).
Looking at the below mockup, why is it ...
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If you can't improve loading time, is distracting the user a good technique?
On several implementations I've worked with, loading times can be as high as four seconds for the start page. When all reasonable options are done, is it possible to distract the user to make the ...
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How and when should you use animation in your application?
Sometimes applications can benefit from animations in the UI.
What tips do you have for determining when you should use animation?
How can you maximize the usefulness of animations and avoid ...
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loading new view from which direction ? L2R or R2L?
I've been developing mobile apps using sencha touch for quite a time now. In that, whenever a new view is to be loaded, default animation direction is from Right-to-Left. This can be seen in android ...
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Expandable Card Interaction
I'm trying to create a card with some text/images inside, which can expand down and expose more content if a user clicks on the expand button (a huge down arrow).
The natural way to do this obviously ...
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How to define interactions and animations in an extensible way?
The whole question, summarised for answerability:
How would it be best for a designer to define really complex UIs?
Would it be a good approach to map how the mental creative process works, into ...
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Best way to switch between views with different navbars
On the iPhone, when a set of views have different colored and textured navigation bars, what is the best way to animate in the new view when the user taps on a tabbar icon?
Should the new fade in ...
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How can animations be depicted in wireframes effectively?
I came across a question on Quora about jQuery animations in wireframes, which got me thinking about the general conventions in depicting any animation in static wireframes. I've been using either ...
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3answers
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Does animating statistical data make it easier to understand?
I'm looking at this presentation at Ted.com, and it uses impressive animated statistics:
Hans Rosling: Stats that reshape your worldview
Does using animated data make understanding statistical data ...
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How fast should a banner rotate on a website?
Are there any studies or published de-facto standards on how fast the slides of a carousel should change on the homepage of a website?
Here are some examples of sites that incorporate carousels at ...
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Guidelines/best practices for CSS hover animations in web UI
What, if any, are the accepted guidelines and/or best practices for using CSS animated transitions on hover in a web-based user interface? When does it start to simply become annoying and ...
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What is this failed login visual shake feedback properly called? Is it beneficial?
Wordpress, Coursera and others have the "shake fail" feedback (see Coursera gif below).
Is there a name for this type of mimicry of a physical action (head shaking "no")?
Is there any evidence of ...
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3answers
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Does a “faster” loading indicator make website/software seem faster?
While checking how a site works on Internet Explorer, I noticed that the page loading indicator spins a lot faster than in other browsers. Also, the iPhone uses a noticeably slower activity indicator ...
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Tool for work between UI/UX Designers and developers to show animations [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can animations be depicted in wireframes effectively?
Are there any standard tools for work between designers and developers, especially for designer to explain flow ...
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4answers
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What's this called and how does it fare from a UI perspective?
The Facts About Coventry website has a flash plugin app for navigation of data (bottom half of the page). It's a big circle where you can hover over the icons to get a description of the category and ...
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1answer
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Creating a transition pattern library
I am looking to compile and apply a list of transitions/animations across a web application.
Does anyone have any good examples of any existing transition pattern libraries out there?
I know the ...
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3answers
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Should animations pause on mouseover?
Should animations pause on mouseover? I have my opinion, but I was wondering if there was any evidence to support/refute the idea that users expect this to happen.
EDIT: I'm specifically concerned ...
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2answers
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What software is used to create GUI concept videos?
If I was to create a video of a GUI concept video with animations, what software is best suited for that? The focus would be applications for mobile devices or screens integrated in homes, cars etc.
...
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Blinking, bouncing and flashing elements
I'm responsible for the UI/UX in a software development company.
During my absence, some developers decided to implement a "bounce" effect on a button of a website that they think should have more ...
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7answers
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Deliverables: Animated Movies - what to do when a clickable wireframe is not enough?
Since I started working for a think tank I am often confronted with the problem that my standard set of deliverables are not sufficient to describe a vision. I often need to highlight the context ...
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Animation on Handheld: How Much is Too Much?
In web applications in the 1990s, it was pretty common to see animation (animated gifs, marquees, etc.) -- since then, the industry has pretty much established this as a no-no for (professional) ...
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When is it appropriate to use fading animated messages for feedback and notification.
To clarify: these are messages (text or symbols) that appear right at the point of interaction, and then float away and fade out.
You see this kind of animation when adding people to your Circle in ...
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What is more pleasing to the eye fade in or suddently appear
I have a pop up menu. What is said to be easier on the users' eyes? Should I just have it appear immediately using visibility = true or should I have it fade in using opacity animation?
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How should cancelled animations behave?
How should an animation behave when it is cancelled/changed?
For example, let's say I have a button in my application that triggers the visibility of a tool panel. When the panel is shown, an ...
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1answer
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What examples are there of animated toolbar icons? [closed]
Are there applications (including web applications) that have animated toobar icons? I would imagine they would only animate on hover/mouse over, but I'd be interested to show someone this so we can ...
