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Francesco Bertocci

Sr. Product/UX/UI Designer

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Francesco Bertocci

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6 things we learned about animation from Headspace, Google, Lyft, and more | Inside Design Blog

#Motion #BestPractices #UIDesign #UX

Real-world examples of motion design to create successful products from the teams.









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Francesco Bertocci

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Vivus Instant: inline SVG animation with CSS

#SVGs #Animations #Tools #CSS

Inline SVG Drawing Animation









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Francesco Bertocci

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Introducing Quill 2.0 | Oculus Rift Platform - YouTube

#VR #Tools #Oculus

Quill (VR painting and animation tool) gets a major update with a new animation timeline!









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Francesco Bertocci

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A Recipe for Designing Animations—Without Sacrificing Performance

#UIdesign #Motion #Animation #Productivity #Optimization #Sketch #AFX #Lottie #SVGs #Plugins

Last year, Google Chrome celebrated a big milestone, and turned 10. I work on UI design, visual design, and content strategy to continuously improve Google Chrome’s web presence, and in September…









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Francesco Bertocci

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Tutorial: These tiny tweaks make your animations so much better

#Motion #UIDesign #Tips #Tutorials #InVisionStudio

What takes a product animation from good to great? Really, it’s all about the small details. Using InVision Studio, let’s […]









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Francesco Bertocci

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Guide to Material Motion in After Effects

#UIDesign #AFX #MaterialDesign #Animation #Motion

A basic sticker sheet and workflow for animating user interfaces









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Francesco Bertocci

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Animations in iOS: Tab Bar concepts – Flawless App Stories – Medium

#iOS #Mobile #AppDesign #Animation #Motion #UIDesign

A great selection of animated tab bars. Some are over the top but they are nonetheless great explorations of what’s possible and how to bring delight into UIs with motion and sometimes humor. Heads up: cute and cool alone are not enough, try to get some feeeback from real users. How often are your users going to see this animation? Does it take too long to execute? Or is it just the right speed. Enjoy!









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Francesco Bertocci

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Building Brand Loyalty and Reducing Anxiety with UI Animation

#Motion #Animation #UIDesign #UX #BestPractices

A look at the most common anxiety causing micro-interactions and animations that can turn them into moments of delight. Then we’ll show you how to create one of these animations using Sketch and Flow.









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Francesco Bertocci

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Flow: A new class of motion design for mobile and web

#FlowApp #UIDesign #Motion #Animation #Dev #Prodyctivity #iOS #HTML

Go beyond prototyping. Flow lets you animate designs and export development ready code









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Francesco Bertocci

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Magic Move on Framer Store

#Framer #Prototyping #Productivity

Animate components without using code

  1. Create a design component ⌘+K. This is your Source.
  2. Create an instance of your component ⌘+D. This is your Target.
  3. Double click on your Target to change the children’s properties you want to animate.
  4. Connect Magic Move to Source and Target and customise its animation properties.
  5. Preview and be happy forever ✨









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Francesco Bertocci

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Micro nudge: a micro animation for behavioral change

#UX #UI #ProductDesign

A micro nudge is a well-timed small animation that prompts the user to do a “small” task that they may have otherwise forgotten or not have taken notice of. The sliding “comment” is the micro nudge…









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Using Time To Sculpt Software Animation

#Animation #BestPractices

Designing animation is sculpting time. Timing is critical. If you don’t consider animation timing, you’re not designing animation.









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Timeline: Animation Easing Functions Explained

#AnimaApp #Timeline #Animation #Sketch

Timeline is a tool for animation design, right inside Sketch. On this post we’ll explore easing functions, and the new easing controller. An easing function determines rate of change of a parameter…









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Diya: Timeline animation directly in Sketch (10% off!)

#Sketch #Plugins #Animations #Deals #Prototyping

Beautiful interaction design. Right inside Sketch.

Special Design&Prototype 10% off:
Use code “DAPNYC” at checkout.

Offer ends on May 10th. 









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How SVG Line Animation Works

#SVGs #Animations #CSS

I bet all of you have seen that little trick where an SVG path is animated to look like it's drawing itself. It's super cool. Jake Archibald pioneered the technique and has a super good interactive blog post on how it works. Brian Suda wrote about it on 24 Ways. Polygon used it to great effect on a custom designed









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Mimicking the Medium Clap Animation with Sketch and Haiku

#Sketch #Haiku #Animations #MicroInteractions #React

Mastering CSS used to be a barrier for entry to designing complex motion animations. Haiku makes it approachable for beginners.









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Good to great UI animation tips

#UIDesign #MicroInteractions #Animations #UX

Let’s see some examples of UI animations going from good to great. With a little bit of tweaking here and there, you can elevate your UI patterns with animation. The interactions listed show…









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20 UI Animation Tutorials

#UI #Animations #Tutorials #MicroInteractions

20 Really Useful UI Animation Tutorials Every Designer Should Know









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Haiku: Design, meet production

#Haiku #Animation #UIDesign #iOS #Android #WebDev #MicroInteractions

Where designing is building. Design UI components, powered by motion. Works with any iOS, Android, or Web codebase.









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Timeline for Sketch Plugin

#AnimaApp #Animation #Sketch #Plugins

Unleash your creativity. Create GIFs & Videos directly from Sketch.
Pre-Sale continues with 25% off until official release in March. Timeline price will be $79 when we launch.

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  • 100% Money back in case of no release
  • 25% OFF Official price (1 year)
  • License includes a year’s worth of updates
  • Expected Release March - 2018
Our products are being used & loved by designers at Apple, Facebook, Google, MailChimp, Starbucks, Shopify, Amazon, Disney Netflix, Trip Advisor and a lot more.

Our goal at anima is to empower designers with powerful visual tools.
Amongst our products you can find Auto-Layout for Sketch and Launchpad for Sketch.

Auto-Layout pioneered responsive design without coding, empowering designers to better express their ideas into live designs.
Launchpad is the first Sketch to live website solution, that enables designers to pubish real websites without the need of coding or hiring developers.

With Timeline, we are aiming to allow designers to create beautiful animations with ease.

If you believe that given the right tools you can achieve much more, support this project and join the movement.

Example animations created with Timeline




To Pre-Order Timeline click "Pay Now" below.









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10 Free Animation Libraries For The Web

#CSS #Animation #JS

Animation is one of the key trends for 2018, but you don't have to reinvent the wheel to add movement to your sites. We look at the best free animation









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Animated SVG Alphabet Tutorial with Sketch and Keyshape

#Sketch #Keyshape #Animation #SVG #Typography

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a pre-animated A-Z SVG alphabet in a nice font like Roboto? Yes and yes and it’s coming soon. Even better it’s totally free. Yes I’m insane so what’s new? In this…









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Protowire: Prototyping in Sketch (30% off!)

#Sketch #Prototyping #Tools #Plugin #Deals

No coding or exporting to other applications:
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Rather than something you do at the end, Protowire aims to integrate interaction and animation into the design process without having to change your designs to suit the software.

  • Integrated into Sketch
    No need to export to a separate prototyping application - review the prototype instantly in Sketch or on a device.

  • UI Animations
    Just by moving layers around you can have overlays appear and disappear.

  • Screen Transitions
    Quickly create the flow of your app by linking up artboards from layers or hotspots.

  • Responsive Design
    Use Sketch’s resizing constraints and responsive artboard groups to make prototypes that work on any screen size.

To celebrate the launch there is 30% off the pro version by using coupon code 9146C9AF. 

Offer expires on Monday 26th February at 4pm Pacific Time.









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Francesco Bertocci

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A Practical Guide to SVGs on the web

#SVG #Animation #Interaction #CSS #JS #HTML

This guide aims to give a practical overview of how you can use SVGs on your websites — with some tips and tricks along the way to get the most out of them.









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Timeline for Sketch by Anima App

#Animation #Gif #CSS #AnimaApp #Sketch

Create beautiful timeline animations in Sketch












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