I was taught a good lesson about animations, that I want to share:
When you make an animation, you might fall in love with it too much. You are proud, because it looks really cool. It's exciting to make it. Visitors of your page might not feel the same, since we see so many animations every day. Look at one of those cheap american news shows - there are really professional animations all the time. It's a hard pill to swallow, noone cares about our animation as much as we do :(
It doesn't mean, the animation should go. It should absolutely stay, but the crank up the speed of the animation as much as you can bear. And then make it twice as fast. I mean that literally. I had made an animation that took a second to complete, a decade ago. My senior looked at it, and gave that same lesson. I cranked the speed up to 0.3 seconds - it was as much as I was willing to speed up. "Otherwise noone can really see it." ... Then I sped it up to 0.15 seconds, went to lunch, and when I came back, I could appreciate that it was perfect.
dayvonjersen|2 years ago
Solid advice! I'll try 150ms thanks :)