Whose Job is Animation?

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Animation often sits in between design and dev. Sometimes a passionate designer will include animation guides into their Figma designs. If they don't, sometimes a passionate dev will take the initiative and throw in an animation of their own. Let's talk about how to make animation a first class citizen and include it in your design process.

In this talk I'll cover some animation basics, WHY you should consider animation, examples of EFFECTIVE animations vs DISTRACTING animations, some WARNINGs about animations, the different TYPES of animation (css vs js, springs vs time based) and MORE!

This talk has been presented at React Summit 2025, check out the latest edition of this React Conference.

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Matt Colman

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