UI Animations
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
Bad. Any website where the sodding designer decided to use the marquee tag or the Java snow animation.
Only do this if you have a midi playing You Light Up My Life in the background.
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Animations in normal everyday UI (I am not talking about games here) (especially in the WPF world) are becoming more and more popular. Among the popular web sites and applications, can you come up with 1 example where, according to you, animations are good, meaningful (done right) and 1 example where, you think, the designer added animations for the sake of animations.
Good: re-ordering tabs via drag & drop in Google Chrome. The animation makes is quick and gives the feeling of non-jarring and smooth action, showing the user what just happened. The animation makes it very clear what's going on. Bad: The Visual Studio hide/show sidebars. They're slow choppy animations. They get in the way and generally aren't useful.
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H'mmm, Woodgrove says, with little in the way of animation, indeed somewhat wooden even
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Awesome application
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LOL - I have a client who sells ice melting stuff. There are falling snow flakes. They were requested - and I think they fit actually (where most sites don't) I've never been sodding before... It's not so bad ... Sodding... LOL Sodding Snow (ROFL)
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Here's one I hate: http://www.guiffy.com/[^] (Hover the mouse over the menus.) (Don't like the product much either; vastly prefer Beyond Compare.)
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That animation (to me) isn't that bad - but it doesn't really 'add' anything to the page either. I like those instantaneous menus... so I don't get slowed down... (Not that this one you showed us is THAT slow or anything - just my opinion...) I prefer SNAPPY & fast.
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Good: How the .Net (Winforms) calendar control is rendered under Vista*... it zooms in and out very nicely. First time I saw it doing this I thought "nice". *I say under Vista - it may do this under XP, but in my XP VM it doesn't, it has the old school month menu and no zooming. Bad: eBay. There's lots of craptastic things on eBay at the moment, but my biggest gripes are the way they chosen to bodge ajaxy style things where a standard screen refresh would be more than acceptable, and not bothered with ajaxy stuff where partial updates could be useful. For example, sorting listings (by price, date, etc.) produces this nasty grey box fade out while a partial refresh goes on, whereas a number of tab pages on the site force a full page refresh.
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I agree - the calendars look nice - but "old school" works for me on software period - it's lighter, smaller foot print, does the job, move on. (Just my opinion).. Now I'm into video games too - and I like everything new under the sun in those.
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Good: re-ordering tabs via drag & drop in Google Chrome. The animation makes is quick and gives the feeling of non-jarring and smooth action, showing the user what just happened. The animation makes it very clear what's going on. Bad: The Visual Studio hide/show sidebars. They're slow choppy animations. They get in the way and generally aren't useful.
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Nice point - if the animation helps aleviate the need for documentation - and simplifies learning by "demonstrating" what happened or "is" happening, then I see that as a value addition and worth it.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
Bad. Any website where the sodding designer decided to use the marquee tag or the Java snow animation.
Only do this if you have a midi playing You Light Up My Life in the background.
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Good: re-ordering tabs via drag & drop in Google Chrome. The animation makes is quick and gives the feeling of non-jarring and smooth action, showing the user what just happened. The animation makes it very clear what's going on. Bad: The Visual Studio hide/show sidebars. They're slow choppy animations. They get in the way and generally aren't useful.
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon Judah Himango