Delightful UI animations by understanding the brain

Check out the world’s award-winning websites—what do they all have in common? Animations! They have elements that move and change. When done well, animations can amaze us. But why are some animations delightful while others are so annoying? The answer could be in how our brain perceives motion.

Understanding this could be the key to confidently adding animations to our websites and apps. Animations with code seem hard, but they shouldn’t be. In this talk, I will give some tips and explore some tools to simplify creating animations in React.

About the speaker:

Bruno Lourenço has loved animations since Flash. He’s passionate about physics-based UI animations and believes coding them doesn’t have to be complicated - which led him to create React-Morph. He’s a Senior Frontend Developer at Ginetta, a design agency based in Switzerland.