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A little bit of movement can be nice, but this is really overdoing it on almost every icon. The animations here go so fast, it's only distracting you from the main message of the button/CTA/promo. Less is more.
What you take away from it is what is important. What would you improve in your design if you were able to add the perception of motion? How would engaging that human capacity make your product better?
I'd like to see some comparison between static and animated icons, but not sure how to profile it. Measure FPS, or cpu time for rendering a page, perhaps?
I feel like some of the icons (PayPal and WordPress in particular) are animated for the sake of being animated. overall, I feel that making every little button wiggle when I mouse over it would be distracting rather than helpful. I can't see myself using these.
The bouncing twitter bird is against twitter's TOS, right? https://twitter.com/logo
Animate the bird"
I've been mulling over these kind of animated icons after seeing the little weather icons on http://forcast.io . Seems like it would be extra neat to make this a webfont somehow (swapping out 'frames' of font-data under the font name alias). However pretty unnecessary, considering the LiveIcon perks of using data attributes to specify loops, etc.
This is the Geocities of vector art. I don't see this as a good thing, I see this as a poor compensation for bad interface design. If your icon needs animation for it to make sense to your visitor you're doing it wrong.
That seems like a generalization. Surely there are instances where animation is appropriate for an interface. What's so wrong with another tool to achieve that goal with the added benefit of being entirely scaleable?
Not surely.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
That seems like a generalization. Surely there are instances where animation is appropriate for an interface. What's so wrong with another tool to achieve that goal with the added benefit of being entirely scaleable?
Surely there are instances where animation is appropriate for an interface. Not surely.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
That seems like a generalization. Surely there are instances where animation is appropriate for an interface. What's so wrong with another tool to achieve that goal with the added benefit of being entirely scaleable?
Surely there are instances where animation is appropriate for an interface. Not surely.
Having it animate back is just better communication for that particular interface.
You can see this on Google Chromes new tab "Most Visited" page, drag an item and let it go on nothing, it will animate back to its position.
Then there's sorting, it's much better (to me) when the interface animates to show you what the effect of moving one item to a new location will have on the rest of the items in that list, you can see this effect on sites like Trello when you drag around cards, etc.
I'm sure there are more examples of good uses of animation in interfaces.