Motion
experiments
Micro interactions, easing curves, and the moments where motion makes an interface feel honest instead of decorative.
Focus
Micro interactions, easing curves, and the moments where motion makes an interface feel honest instead of decorative.
Medium
Web, prototypes
Duration
Ongoing
Last updated
March 2026
Motion is one of the easiest things to overdo and one of the hardest things to do well. This track is about the small moments: a hover, a state change, a transition that confirms instead of decorates.
I keep coming back to easing curves. They are the punctuation of an interface.
Motion that
confirms.
The best micro motion answers a question the user did not even realise they were asking: did this register, where am I now, is something happening.
When motion is doing that job, you barely notice it. When it is decorative, you notice it once and resent it the second time.
Curves as
character.
Two products can use the same animation duration and feel completely different because of the curve. A linear ease feels industrial. A soft cubic ease feels considered.
I am interested in how curves can carry brand without anyone ever explicitly noticing them.
Plates.
Open
questions.
- When does motion stop being feedback and start being friction?
- How do you brief easing in a written spec?
- Where does motion belong on a static page like this one?