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Live Q&A with Issara September 24th

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Note: This Q&A sessions will be 30 minutes long

  • 00:16 How to sell motion to stakeholders
  • 00:40 How not to sell motion to stakeholders (free resource: ...
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How to Create a 3D Instagram Cube Transition in After Effects

Are you looking to enhance your skills and impress those around you with your design abilities? It’s easier to create 3D cube transitions than most people think and it is a skill that will enhance your abilities overall. By learning how to create 3D cube transitions, you will learn so many...

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Live Q&A with Issara August 13th

Ok wow we covered a ton of amazing UI Animation resources on this call. Some awesome questions and really great new links and resources I wanted to share.

First off, I am happy to report I continued my mission of messing up every single zoom call recording. In this case I didn't record the call...

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How to use Motion in your Design Portfolio: an interview with Jennifer Darmour VP at Oracle

Hi, I hope this finds you well.

Over the next 2 weeks I'm speaking with hiring managers at Apple, Facebook, and Google and asking them what they look for in designer portfolios with regard to motion. I'll let you know what I find out.

Last week I spoke with my friend Jennifer who is a VP at...

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Live Q&A with Issara

Click here to view the questions designers submitted.

Hi, in this one hour live Q&A I answer over 40 questions from designers about motion and product design. 

And, as usual, I found a new and exciting way to totally screw up the Zoom recording. So the audio and content is good but...

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How to sell motion to stakeholders

How to sell motion to stakeholders

Here's a fact: if you are unable to convincingly make a case for motion and explain every detail of your choice in terms of how your animation adds value to the user, the product, and the business, you won't get hired for that UX job. 

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How to Create Augmented Reality in After Effects

Hi, I created this Augmented Reality tutorial in support of Black Lives Matter.

If you like my tutorials, I invite you to donate to this historic movement via my donation page here: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/uxm-blm. I will match your donation up to $1,000.

If you donate $250, I will...

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How to jelly your stroke in After Effects

How to jelly your stroke in After Effects
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In this tutorial,I show you step by step how to jelly your stroke in After Effects.

This tutorial is an improvement over a previous tutorial wherein I show you how to quickly and awesomely create the ‘jelly’ UI effect, where...

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How to stroke to your jelly UI animation in After Effects (more awesome)

How to jelly your stroke in After Effects (more awesome)
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In this tutorial, I show you step by step how to jelly your stroke in After Effects.

This tutorial is an improvement over a previous tutorial wherein I show you how to quickly and awesomely create the ‘jelly’...

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How to Convert Your Sketch Design to After Effects

UPDATE: this workflow can definitely get the job done. However, there is a newer more friction-free workflow that I blogged about using a free plugin called AEUX. Hence, you can now learn The absolute best way to get your Sketch file into After Effects


In this tutorial video, you are going to...

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How to animate your UI button shape in After Effects

 

This is such a dope tutorial. You’ll learn how to animate your UI button like Colin Garven’s dope Submit button. Get stoked because you’re going to learn a really cool way to do this using After Effects shape layers.

 

UI animation credit: Colin Garven

UI animation credit: Colin...

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How to animate Apple TV 3D Camera in After Effects – Part 2

In this video you are going to learn, “How to animate Apple TV 3D Camera in After Effects – Part 2”. This is such a fun technique and really is an opportunity to create delight. In Part 1, you learn how to set up your 3D scene. In this video (Part 2) I cover how to set up...

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How to animate Apple TV focus in After Effects – Part 1

In this two part series, you are going to learn how to animate Apple TV focus in After Effects. This is such a fun technique and really is an opportunity to create delight. In Part 1, you learn how to set up your 3D scene. I cover mindsets and prepping tactics that you should employ when...

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How to Create Parallax in After Effects

In this tutorial video, you are going to learn how to create parallax in After Effects. Parallax comes in many different flavors and designs and from a usability perspective can do many different things.

To begin designing and implementing user experiences that contain parallax, it’s...

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The new UX in Motion app!

Instructions:

  1. Download app:  https://pages.kajabi.com/mobile-app-download

  2. Log in with your UX in Motion user name and email

  3. Watch courses!

I have some awesome news to share with you.

But before I do, I need to ask you something:

Do you know what I get asked all the time?

"Hey...

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How to start your UI Animation GIF on a specific frame in After Effects

 

Click here to download the source files and follow along

Here’s another pro UI animation tip I wanted to share with you. 

The idea is this: when you go to a site like Dribbble, you can see that the first frame of the animation is used as the ‘poster’ frame. 

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How to transition from a motion background into UX

A few weeks ago I received a really good question: how do you transition from a motion background into UX and product design?

The motion designer who wants to transition into UX and product design

Many of the folks who reach out to me about this question fall into this group.

They have...

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Animating data

Today, Google just released a great new design resource for data. 

You can check it out here: https://material.io/design/communication/data-visualization.html#principles

If you scroll to the bottom, you’ll see some pretty cool data animations. 

In my experience, stakeholders, team...

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Announcing 2 new UI animation course bundles (save big)

Based on feedback I've received from my customers, I'm announcing the creation of 2 new UI animation course bundles.

Micro-interactions & Dashboard Animations bundle

Micro-interactions & Dashboard Animations bundleThere here are a LOT of designers who have picked up my most popular UI animation course (UI Animation Fundamentals). You...

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