216: With Val Head and Sarah Drasner
For this episode we're talking web animations with two people who've been in the animation trenches for a while — Sarah Drasner and Val Head. Dave's got some animation specific challenge questions and we talk about ways to present your cool animation idea to clients or a boss for approval.
Guests
Time Jump Links
- 8:00 Adding animation decisions to your style guide.
- 10:15 Using variables for easing.
- 15:00 Tip on Ease In / Ease Out
- 18:00 How serious or fun should your easing be?
- 22:02 Has animation arrived now?
- 27:00 Dave's challenge question: Where do older browsers and crappy GPUs fit in with regards to animation?
- 30:29 How do you do elegant, grown-up subdued without doing stuffy?
- 32:00 How to demo animation without having to rebuild the entire app.
- 33:40 How much animation is too much animation?
- 39:50 Rules of animation vs branding animation styles.
- 43:10 What if I'm a horrible person and I animate every paragraph flying onto the page, what should I use there?
- 43:55 Using a voice and tone document to guide your animation choices.
- 49:00 Stories from the trenches of working on animation on the web.
- 54:18 How do you convince your CEO that having a fire breathing dragon on your login page is a good idea?