From small hover loading spinner to whole page transitions like movie experience animation has reached to every part of our designs. The animation is one such trend that has got it not just for cartoons anymore. Animations are popping up everywhere. It has got its claws into the web interfaces.
You can find animations on web applications, whether it be subtitle transitions or an entire web app with cool animations. Illustrations, interactive details, and dynamic effects make the modern web app fundamentally different from the previous designs.
Why you need a web app animated?
For designers, CSS and HTML have made designers more creative to web apps with CSS animations. Excellent animation and inventive UX writing are always impressive. They even explain more complex ideas quickly and easily, also guide users’ actions with the help of appropriate CTA.
A cool and logical animated web app has a better guide on actions. Statistics say that more interactive web apps will hold visitors for a longer time and have a higher conversion rate rather than the static one this is due to animated and illustrated web apps have more personalised dynamic visual effects that contribute to user satisfaction and more extended visits to web apps.
Types of web app animations
Here is the list of web app animations
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Welcoming animations:
First impression is the best for anyone creative greeting animation that lets the users engage in the web app for a longer time. Besides these, animations will entertain the users and make the users use your web app multiple time. Let’s check some of the top welcoming animations to understand how creative and captivate the animations are.
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Background video:
These are soundless background videos that complement the central text, which is quite faster video. Using background video, users can view the website multiple times, which is attractive and let the users spent more time on the website.
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Particle animations:
This is the one best eye-catchy animations which appear on a web apps homepage. These are of two type – interactive and non-interactive. Interactive particle animation will respond to the user’s cursor movements. Whereas non-interactive animations will not respond to the user’s cursor movement. These animations can run even in the background. Typography animations also belong to the category of the particle animations. Typography animations involve images of moving letters and can be either interactive or non-interactive.
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3D animations:
3D animations will give a chance for designers to create realistic and complex visuals that attracts attention. Even some designer experts can design with the mix of 2D with 3D objects, thereby building more in-depth and more sophisticated experiences. There are reactive 3D animations which serves decorative elements of a web application.
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Scrolling:
Scrolling animations are the complement interactive designs and give the users control when scrolling. There are many types of scrolling animations such as one-page scrolling, scroll drawing, background changes and many more. For all the kinds of scrolling animations, the animation move only when the user scrolls the page.
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Loading:
Loading animations make the user fun when something is loading. There are many types of loading animations such as spin, jump or disappear, which make fun while loading things such as website pages, PDF files, Tables, Maps, Videos, etc. You can even consider skeleton screens, short cartoons, progress bars and shape-changing animations.
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Visual Feedback:
Animations even help users instantly understand if they have done correct action or not. These are divided into two types, such as warning animations and hover effect animations.
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Hover effect animations:
In this hover effect animation, the user will know whether the button they hover is clickable. Buttons can light up, change form or colour or show hints. Another use of hover effect animation is to inform the user that the actions they have performed were successful.
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Warning Animations:
In this type of warning animations, they tell the users that they went something wrong with the process. For instance, animations can ask users to repeat an action or not to click a button again if they have filled the field wrongly or something missed.
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Image Galleries:
Users like to see images on the website that actually drags more people to the website. The image gallery can be like a slideshow or a carousel demonstrating images one by one which can narrate a story or can save space in the website. By this, you can attract attention to the best products that you developed. When you give navigation to the slideshow or carousels, you can make the user view all the portfolio of your works.
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Storytelling:
Storytelling animation is one other best that conveys a lot of information quickly and makes your story absorbing. For instance, if you want to tell about your business, you can convey that clearly with storytelling animation rather than writing a lengthy article.
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Sidebar Navigation:
This type of sidebar navigation animation is the best-fitted option to create compact and precise web apps. The small animated menu icons that are on the side of the screen allows the users to reach your web app’s menu without any scrolling easily.
Technologies for creating web animations
Here we will look after the technologies for building awesome web animations
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SVG:
Scalable Vector Graphics animations look sharp as vectors have no pixel limitations. You can resize the page using SVGs which maintains quality just like raster images. SVG elements can be animated with CSS. SVG has its own syntax for animations known as SMIL which is more potent than CSS
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CSS:
CSS animations will assist you in changing between different states by using keyframe set. With high-performance CSS animations, there is no need for external libraries. You can animate components of your web pages in the DOM(Document Object Model) by setting CSS properties on them. For responsive development, CSS animation is a good practice. In this, you change your animations with media queries. You can pass the values of keyframes and timing properties rather than making objects for keyframes and timing properties.
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Canvas:
With canvas animation, there will be high performance when animating a lot of visualisations as it gives a visual space where you make complex animations. This animation works with pixels. Using the pixels, you can create complex drawing and interactions that don’t affect performance.
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JavaScript:
Javascript animations offers more power and flexibility than transitions or CSS-based animations. It can be used to move DOM elements on a page. Essential JavaScript has its own animation functionality, but animations are done using additional libraries which effects performance. In general Javascript, animations are used to animate bouncing, pausing, stopping and slowing down.
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WebGL:
WebGL stands for Web Graphics Library mostly used for difficult effects and 3D objects. It also used to create animations for virtual reality and also to render graphics at 60 frames per second. Most creative and innovative visual effects are made with WebGL.
Conclusion
Most web app focuses more on visual effects, and users experience an excellent animation will make the user’s experience better. Animations can be in the form of an emotional connection such as a fun, positive experience, by making a site more comfortable to use. The animation is a fun technique that becomes much more standard for a variety of applications.
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