You Don’t Need Animations
September 23, 2025
When done right, animations make an interface feel predictable, faster, and more enjoyable to use. They help you and your product stand out.
But they can also do the opposite. They can make an interface feel unpredictable, slow, and annoying. They can even make your users lose trust in your product.
So how do you know when and how to animate to improve the experience?
Source: You Don’t Need Animations
We’ve long been advocates for animation in the web interface. Indeed we’ve written many articles and developed tools for helping people to do that. And you can find numerous presentations going back years here on Conffab about the subject.
Here Emil Kowalski It doesn’t really advocate for removing animations, but focuses on some very specific use cases and how animations can be designed to communicate better.
