Can you sing? Even if you sound like a gargling crow, I bet you can still tap out some kind of rhythm. That’s the difference between animation, especially in UX, and drawing. UI Animation is all about the timing, plus understanding a few basic principles.

In the last year, the toolscape of UI development has bloomed with new animation tools that vastly simplify development.

Until recently, delivering animation in a user interface was the most painful kind of designer-developer handoff. An …