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We've come a long way since the days of flashing banner ads and scrolling news tickers. Today, the stunning motion design of iOS and Android dramatically improves a user's experience - instead of detracting from it. The best sites and apps of today leverage animation to improve the feel and intuitiveness of their interfaces. Sites without animation are starting to feel antiquated.This book provides you with a technical foundation to implement animation in a way that's both visually stunning and programmatically maintainable. Throughout, we consider the balance between enriching a page with motion design while avoiding unnecessary flourishes
Readers will learn how to design loading sequences that ensure users stay fully engaged instead of tuning out, how to leverage simple physics principles to make apps respond naturally to users' input (just like motion behaves in the real world), how to exploit CSS transforms to create rich depth in animations, and how to fully leverage JavaScript animation libraries like Velocity.js to streamline animation programming. From animation performance to theory, we cover everything needed to become a professional web animator. Whether you're a novice or professional web developer, this book is for everyone.
Why is all of this so important? Why is it worth your time to become a professional motion designer? For the same reason that designers spend hours perfecting their pages' font and color combinations, motion designers perfect their animations' transition and easing combinations: Refined products feel superior. They leave users whispering to themselves, "Wow, this is cool", right before they turn to a friend and exclaim, "You gotta try this."
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    0134096665
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    978-0134096667
  3. Edition
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  4. Publisher
    Peachpit Press
  5. Publication date
    March 20, 2015
  6. Part of series
    Develop and Design
  7. Language
    English
  8. Dimensions
    8.9 x 7.3 x 0.3 inches
  9. Print length
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"...there is so much wisdom in here that even the most experienced developer will learn something new." - Anand Sharma (Creator, AprilZero.com) "Anyone who builds interfaces would benefit from reading this, even if you're not into JavaScript." - Andrey Petrov (Creator, Python's urllib3)"How engineering animations in 2015 should be taught." - Joey Primiani (Founder, Backplane)

About the Author

Julian Shapiro is a startup founder and a developer. His first startup, NameLayer, was acquired by Techstars. His current focus is advancing motion design on the web, and to that end he created the JavaScript library Velocity.js, which is rapidly becoming one of the most popular animation libraries on the web. It is one of the most starred projects on GitHub and is depended on by many top sites, including Tumblr and WhatsApp. He was also awarded Stripe's Open Source Grant for his development on Velocity. Follow him for tweets on UI animation: @Shapiro. He currently lives in San Francisco.


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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Peachpit Press
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 20, 2015
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0134096665
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0134096667
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.1 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.9 x 7.3 x 0.3 inches
  • Part of series ‏ : ‎ Develop and Design
  • Best Sellers Rank: #7,140,222 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Julian Shapiro is a startup founder and a developer. His first startup, NameLayer, was acquired by Techstars. His current focus is advancing motion design on the web, and to that end he created the JavaScript library Velocity.js, which is rapidly becoming one of the most popular animation libraries on the web. It is one of the most starred projects on GitHub and is depended on by many top sites, including Tumblr and WhatsApp. He was also awarded Stripe's Open Source Grant for his development on Velocity. Follow him for tweets on UI animation: @Shapiro. He currently lives in San Francisco.

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Customers find the book to be a great technical read that provides practical information about web animation, with one review noting how it explores important techniques. The book receives positive feedback for its clarity and value, with customers describing it as concise and worth the investment.
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19 customers mention information quality, 16 positive, 3 negative
Customers find the book's information practical and valuable, with one customer noting how it contextualizes best practices and provides a solid foundation.
Solid read. Practical information. Worth the money.Read more
Great: clear and concise, yet filled with valuable insights.Read more
helpful for beginners trying to get a grasp on web animation and design.Read more
As a seasoned web developer, this is the perfect go to guide for polishing my skills in web animation and keeping up with the cutting edge of...Read more
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Customers find the book highly readable, describing it as one of the best technical reads, with one customer specifically mentioning it as the best front-end coding book.
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...Not only a great read for those that are familiar with the concepts, but also beginners (like myself) looking to gain a good understanding of how/...Read more
This is a great book. Explains all the VelocityJS options, gives some nice tips and also some nice theory on Motion Design....Read more
Excellent book for engineers and user experience designers to make better products by using animations to give it that WOW!...Read more
12 customers mention animation, 11 positive, 1 negative
Customers appreciate the book's coverage of web animation, particularly its workflow and design aspects, with one customer noting how the animations feel organic.
...The standout chapters for me were on animation workflow and another on animation performance. Excellent job....Read more
...web developer, this is the perfect go to guide for polishing my skills in web animation and keeping up with the cutting edge of javaScript animation....Read more
...the VelocityJS options, gives some nice tips and also some nice theory on Motion Design. Just know you won't be learning pure Javascript animation....Read more
What everyone else said. Learned a lot about web animation. Seems to be one of the few books on the topic. Thanks!Read more
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...a concise and snappy state of affairs on web animation and was well worth reading.Read more
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Customers find the book clear and concise, with one customer noting its easy-to-follow structure.
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...factor - clear, concise, easy to follow with excellent modern examples. How engineering animations with JS in 2015 should be taught.Read more
...Excellent book to pair with an animation plug-in like Velocity.JS. Straight forward, to the point, exactly what I needed to get the job done, and gon...Read more
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  • David Kangaroo
    5.0 out of 5 stars Worth it. Hard to find this material elsewhere.
    Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2015
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    It's pretty hard to find good technical literature on web animation, which is really a shame.

    As a web developer, I first got interested in motion design when I downloaded an amazingly well-designed app on my phone. Been chasing that level of quality ever since. There’s iOS animation then there’s web animation, and they’re entirely separate things. I heard of Velocity.js (author’s animation engine) through work and then began experimenting with it to see if I could recreate some of the more interesting motion design examples I've stumbled into on sites like CodePen and the like.

    I wasn’t expecting the author to also release a book on this very subject. So, pleasantly surprised, here I am.

    First off, the bad: This book is not very long. You’re not going to become a better designer through it’s myriad examples. In fact, it has only one full-on demo (the final chapter). That’s about it for the bad.

    The good:
    - The book provides you with a real foundation. I’m an advanced software engineer, but I easily see this being equally as applicable to novices.
    - The book takes a really digestible, fluff-free recipe format that builds slowly and more or less climaxes in a really fascinating final demo chapter.
    - The topics covered in here are topics I honestly haven’t seen covered elsewhere — so that’s refreshing.
    - The more unique topics include text animation, animation performance (a real deep-dive, not superficial advice), and animation workflow.
    - Animation workflow alone is worth buying this book for, and is worth dealing with the fact that this book primarily focuses on Velocity (not a big deal).

    Not the best JavaScript book I’ve read, but it definitely ranks up there. Certainly one of the top technical books I’ve read, especially on the topic of web animations.
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  • Tim Dalrymple
    5.0 out of 5 stars Web Animation is the best front-end coding book I've read
    Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2015
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    I have 4.5 years behind me as a full-time developer, and a lifetime as a hobbyist. I have been wondering for a while now about the prospects of working my way into the higher skilled areas of web animation. This is one of the few programming books I savored. Like another reviewer said, I haven't seen most of the content written elsewhere, particularly the chapters on text animation and animation performance. I've read 1 or 2 articles on these topics online but never actually read anything that completely breaks down the topics in bible/recipe format. All the while, the book continually (successfully) contextualizes how best practices should be used and what the balance is between going over the top with animations and keeping them subtle. Really a big fan of this. I also recommend reading the work of Aerotwist. He has related content.
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  • Sam
    4.0 out of 5 stars Great book, but should've had "(with Velocity)" in the title.
    Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2015
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    This is a great book. Explains all the VelocityJS options, gives some nice tips and also some nice theory on Motion Design. Just know you won't be learning pure Javascript animation. This is all about the plugin/library Velocity. And that's okay, because Velocity is amazing.
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  • James Reggio
    5.0 out of 5 stars Skeptical about JavaScript-based animation? Read this book.
    Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2015
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    As an prospective user of Velocity.js, I was excited to read what Shapiro had to say about animation on the web. I tend to waffle back and forth between the CSS- and JavaScript-based animation camps (mostly due to performance concerns), but Shapiro really won me over. The book helped me to understand how animations should fit into the architecture of my app, and helped me to make changes that improved not only my code structure, but the overall frame-rate of my app's interactions.

    (Interestingly, it seems like his side is 'winning' in the battle between style versus script. Tons of 'put your styles in JavaScript' technologies are popping up these days, not doubt inspired by his work on the subject.)
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  • Neal O'Grady
    5.0 out of 5 stars Exactly what I needed
    Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2015
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    I've read a lot of technical books over the past couple years, and this one is definitely a stand out. Excellent book to pair with an animation plug-in like Velocity.JS. Straight forward, to the point, exactly what I needed to get the job done, and gonna be near my desk for a while now that animation is getting more and more prevalent on the Web.
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  • Jeff Peterson
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great read. Here's a chapter breakdown.
    Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2015
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    - Intro: A love letter to motion design (the book’s term for animation)
    - Chapter 1: Walkthrough of why you’d use JavaScript instead of CSS for animation
    - Chapter 2: A technical overview of how to perform animation in JavaScript
    - Chapter 3: analysis of what constitutes great animation, along with practical examples
    - Chapter 4: A fascinating, original take on how to implement animation into a professional web development workflow (my favorite chapter)
    - Chapter 5: How to animate text (quite interesting)
    - Chapter 6: Quick introduction to animating SVG elements
    - Chapter 7: Extensive deep-dive into how to ensure animations run smoothly
    - Chapter 8: A nice animation demo that ties together the knowledge from the previous chapters
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  • Z
    3.0 out of 5 stars It's OK but I feel like it just scratches the surface
    Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2016
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    First I want to say that I learned a lot from this book, but I just finished it with the feeling that it could've been much better. I am still left feeling like there are many animations I wish I could do but don't even know how to approach them. I wish the book had had a lot more exercises, examples and different animations that were possible. For example, I wanted to know how to emulate typing on a screen, with a blinking cursor, but it wasn't covered as far as I saw, even in the chapter on text animations. The book contains a lot of white space, some pages are nearly blank or contain no new information. The last chapter has a good demo; I would have been much more satisfied if there'd been one example of that depth for each chapter. Even after finishing this book, there are Velocity.js demos on CodePen.io that I would have no idea how to code.
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  • Yoav
    5.0 out of 5 stars A solid title, Great read
    Reviewed in Canada on March 18, 2015
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    A well written dive into a part of development that should not be overlooked. It's rich with insights on UX and usability. You'll learn why animation is important, how and when to use it, and relate those lessons directly to the code that actually makes it all work. If you want to level up and learn how to craft truly engaging experiences get this book.
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  • WARREN
    5.0 out of 5 stars Clear, concise
    Reviewed in Italy on July 6, 2015
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    This is really a book about how to use the author's javascript library velocityjs.
    There's nothing wrong with that considering that it is a very good library. But he also has clear ideas about what constitutes good web animation, and manages to convey those ideas using simple concepts.
    It's quite a quick read, yet I came away inspired and full of useful ideas.
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  • Ian
    4.0 out of 5 stars Decent book
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 14, 2016
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    Decent book, covers Velocity ok, just feels a bit brief maybe. Up side is, its not a problem finishing the book, so you do get a good feel for it.
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  • James McConnell
    4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
    Reviewed in Canada on March 27, 2017
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    Essential if you are developing with Velocity.
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