Want to get into web animation? This Generate NYC session from Val Head takes you through the basics.
Web motion designer Val Head will be hosting a session at Generate Sydney on motion in design systems, in which she'll be demonstrating all the things you need to make web animation work for you and your team: designing animation that fits your brand, making animation part of your design process, and documenting your animation decisions in your style guide for future use.
Just to whet your appetite for this feast of web animation knowledge, here's something we prepared earlier. It's Val's session from last year's Generate New York conference: a crash course in becoming a web animation pro.
In this session from Generate NYC 2015, Val Head explains the basics of web animation
As a web designer or developer, you might not think that you need to know about animation, but as the animation capabilities of CSS and JavaScript increase, animation is swiftly becoming essential part of UI design. It helps to at least understand the principles of animation, and to think like a motion designer when adding animations and transitions to web work.
So to get you started, in this session Val breaks down the basics of animation for you, explaining key principles such as timing, offsets, arcs and more, as they apply to web UI work, and she also demonstrates how to pull off common CSS3 animation tricks.
It's the perfect introduction to one of the most exciting areas of web design and development; for the full experience you can see Val's notes here, and also check out this article in which she provides a crash course in motion design for the web.
If you want to catch Val at Generate Sydney – as well as other big web design names including Erika Hall, Jonathan Snook and John Allsopp – now's the time to buy your ticket. If you book now for an earlybird conference pass you can save 100AUD!
Can't make it to Sydney? Sarah Drasner will be demonstrating how to create intricate SVG animations at Generate San Francisco; she and other web pros reveal their tips for debugging web animation here.
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