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What is the purpose of motion?

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"Motion is a form of storytelling. You tell a story by breathing life into otherwise static web experiences." Initially, what I wrote above was what I thought motion was all about. It is still about telling stories but it is also about causing delight. When I see svgs animate in a meaningful manner, there might not be a broad context in which it applies, but that movement can inspire delight. It can sometimes also lead me to use it over and over again. I believe Motion is about conveying experiences. Experiences of joy, delight, wackiness, wonder and sometimes surprise. You convey it by figuring out what needs to move, when it needs to move and how it needs to move. Animation and transitions are vehicles of narration. I have been wondering about what makes interactive web experiences filled with so much soul, and while it is the tool being used which makes it possible, what inspires is the story that is being told. The delight is wells up in me. and that delight is part of an overachin

What is the purpose of motion? Jan 26, 2025 What is the purpose of motion? "Motion is a form of storytelling. You tell a story by breathing life into otherwise static web experiences." Initially, what I wrote above was what I thought motion was all about. It is still about telling stories but it is also about causing delight. When I see svgs animate in a meaningful manner, there might not be a broad context in which it applies, but that movement can inspire delight. It can sometimes also lead me to use it over and over again. I believe Motion is about conveying experiences. Experiences of joy,

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