Functional Animation

Sarah Drasner

@sarah_edo : twitter || @sdras : codepen

Fronteers, Amsterdam 2016

Sarah Drasner

let's start from the beginning.

Creating Spatial Awareness

why is this important?

• Websites start to all look the same
• Buttons on a website as CTAs are the most powerful thing
• Growth-hacking
• User-testing

invisible animation

Immersive animation

vs

Invisible animation

UX Animation & UX Choreography

Mental Maps

context-shifting in UX

Interruption

Spacial Maps - connecting two states

Spacial Maps - cognitive leaks

Kathy Sierra- Badass: Making Users Awesome

Morphing

From this CSS-Tricks Article

Isolation

Revealing

Revealing

Revealing

style and branding:

Not one size fits all

• What happens repeatedly
• Easing structures
• User flow
• Toggle on/off?

You're on a trip exploring a city

You want to build out the day of activities

Lonely Planet

but...

Google Maps

Let's empower the user

This demo.

STYLE AND BRANDING

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style and Branding (react-motion)

STYLE AND BRANDING

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anticipatory cues

anticipatory cues

Custom Loaders:

Viget did an experiment and found that despite some individual variation, novel loaders as a whole had a higher wait time and lower abandon rate than generic ones

Loading times

Treehouse: Percieved Performance

Spatial Awareness

Interaction

seat preview from codrops

drag n drop for spatial awareness

space conservation

Right tool for the right job

Performance

• Opacity
• Transforms
• Hardware Acceleration

@mixin accelerate() {
 transform: translateZ(0);
 backface-visibility: hidden;
 perspective: 1000px;
}

.foo {
  @include accelerate(transform);
}

Resources:

Debugging Keyframe Animations

High Performance Animations

Hardware Acceleration vs CONTROL

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src: Wealthfront

Case Study: Netflix

IMMersive Animation

The purpose is to call attention

Dom/Virtual DOM

• Great for UI/UX animation
• Great for SVG that is resolution independent
• Easier to debug

Canvas

• Dance, pixels, dance!
• Great for really impressive 3d or immersive stuff
• Movement of a tons of objects

• Harder to make accessible
• Not resolution independent out of the box
• Breaks to nothing

• Tanks with a lot of objects
• ^ Because of this you have to care about the way you animate

SVG!

SVG!

• Crisp on any display
• Less HTTP requests to handle
• Easily scalable for responsive
• Small filesize if you design for performance
• Easy to animate
• Easy to make accessible

Flash is dead! Long live flash!

• Interactive, immersive
• Narrative
• UI/UX Animations
• Prototyping
• Data Visualizations

SVG ANIMATION:

What is it good for?

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responsive

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Small filesize + performance

Compare to using text with photos to illustrate an article.

8KB Gzipped.

That Whole Animation and SVG was

greensock (gsap)

Solves Cross-Browser Inconsistencies

Bad transform origin bug on rotation, soon to be solved in Firefox.

More in this CSS-Tricks article.

Chrome

IE

Firefox

Safari (zoomed)

Timeline

• stack tweens
• set them a little before and after one another
• change their placement in time
• group them into scenes
• add relative labels
• animate the scenes!
• make the whole thing faster, move the placement of the whole scene, nesting

All without recalculation

The issue with longer CSS animations:

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GreenSock Teaching Monster

syntax

Percentage-Based Transforms on SVG!

get excited.

This pen courtesy of GreenSock.

We can do stuff like this, All fully responsive in every direction

It doesn't neccessarily have to be fully fluid, either. Let's Implement some Responsive Design.

Designing Interaction in Responsive Animations

Like legos.

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//variable declaration for the global repeated animations
var gear = $("#gear1, #gear2, #gear3");
...

//animation that's repeated for all of the sections
function revolve() {
  var tl = new TimelineMax();

  tl.add("begin");
  tl.to(gear, 4, {
      transformOrigin: "50% 50%",
      rotation: 360,
      ease: Linear.easeNone
    }, "begin");
    ...

  return tl;
}

var repeat = new TimelineMax({repeat:-1});
repeat.add(revolve());

function paintPanda() {
  var tl = new TimelineMax();

  tl.to(lh, 1, {
    scaleY: 1.2,
    rotation: -5,
    transformOrigin: "50% 0",
    ease: Circ.easeOut
  }, "paintIt+=1");
  ...

  return tl;
}

//create a timeline but initially pause it so that we can control it via click
var triggerPaint = new TimelineMax({
  paused: true
});
triggerPaint.add(paintPanda());

//this button kicks off the panda painting timeline
$("#button").on("click", function(e) {
  e.preventDefault();
  triggerPaint.restart();
});

...

Accessibility

Title and associative aria tags:

<svg aria-labelledby="title" 
  id="svg" 
  role="presentation" 
  xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
  viewBox="0 0 765 587">
<title id="title" 
  lang="en">
  Icons that illustrate Global Warming Solutions
</title>

Title for elements in the SVG DOM

Role to let the screen reader know whether to traverse

This resource, with support charts.

This article by Heather Migliorisi.

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Narrative

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Main Principle:

Design everything first, slowly unveil things.

Ugly storyboards save you time!

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Created with web Technologies!

React

SVG

GreenSock

How did we use SVG?

• Directly inline in the HTML, for loops
• Background images, for things like taco
• Inline in React

const HeartMeter = React.createClass({
  render() {
    return (
      <div>
        <svg className="heartmeter" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="250" height="50" viewBox="0 0 1741.8 395.6">
          <path d="M1741.8 197.7c0 109.3-89 197.8-198.8 197.8a198.6 198.6 0 0 1-158.5-78.4H11.2A11.2 11.2 0 0 1 0 305.9V89.5a11.2 11.2 0 0 1 11.2-11.1h1373.4A198.8 198.8 0 0 1 1543 0c109.8 0 198.8 88.5 198.8 197.7z" fill="#000"/>
          <path d="M1591.8 127c-18.3 0-34.1 14.8-41.4 30.3-7.3-15.5-23.1-30.3-41.4-30.3a45.7 45.7 0 0 0-45.7 45.5c0 51.1 51.8 64.5 87.1 115.1 33.4-50.2 87.1-65.6 87.1-115.1a45.7 45.7 0 0 0-45.7-45.5z" fill="#b29968"/>
          <rect x="68.2" y="140.8" width={this.props.score} height="101.55" fill="#9391aa"/>
        </svg>
      </div>
    )
  }
});

How did we animate?

• GSAP looping in functions outside React
• RAF to detect collisions
• GSAP for keypress events
• Repeating callbacks for tacos and margaritas

GSAP for Animation

  _flyBy: function(el, amt, name, delay) {
    if (this.props._isGameOver()) return;
    ...

    TweenMax.fromTo(el, amt, {
      rotation:0, 
      y:randY, 
      x:window.innerWidth + 200
    }, {
      x: -200,
      y:randY,
      rotation: 360,
      delay: delay, 
      onComplete:this._flyBy,
      onCompleteParams:[el, amt, name, delay],
      ease: Power1.easeInOut
    });
  },

Sound, Interaction, Animation

//balloon
function balloonGrow(){
  var balloon = $("#balloon")[0];
  var radius = balloon.getAttribute("r");
  var cySet = balloon.getAttribute("cy");
  balloon.setAttribute('r', parseInt(radius) + 10);
  balloon.setAttribute('cy', parseInt(cySet) - 10);
  if (parseInt(radius) > 125) {
    ion.sound.play("balloon-pop3");
    var balloonTl = new TimelineMax();
    balloonTl.add("pop");
    balloonTl.to("#balloon", 0.05, {
      scale: 5,
      opacity: 0,
      transformOrigin: "50% 50%",
      ease: Circ.easeOut
    }, "pop");
    ...
    setTimeout(function(){
      balloon.setAttribute("r", "45");
      balloon.setAttribute("cy", "233.5");
    }, 200);
  }
}

Touch on Mobile

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The web has so much potential

Even old technologies like SVG

🔥

Social Coding Sites Help You Learn

Fun. Remember fun?

(I don't work for them and they don't pay me)

• Codepen
• JS Fiddle
• Dabblet

Web Animation Workshops

with Val Head

🎉

O'Reilly Book

SVG Animation

Thank You!

@sarah_edo on twitter

@sdras on codepen