Advertise here with BSA I’ve seen this trend becoming much more popular amongst mobile and web designers. Adobe After Effects is a powerful software suite typically used for adding effects into videos. But it can also create animations for user interfaces in smartphone apps, tablets, and website layouts. It takes a lot of practice but After Effects is quite the interesting program. These AE animations can be exported as GIFs and used to demonstrate how a UI should behave. Examples may include swiping through a photo gallery, sliding open a menu, performing a search, or anything similar. I’d like to share some ideas about why you might want to learn After Effects and start creating these animations for your digital projects. Why Create Animations? As a designer you often need to present the final interface to developers or clients who wish to make the website or application. This is fine if you can work with static elements, or if the animation effects are very basic. However once you get further into things like mobile app design you’ll find yourself creating very dynamic menus and screen transitions. By designing a GIF you can show off how the animation should unfold. It will show which parts of the screen should move away, how they should move, and what should appear afterwards. Even basic effects like scrolling down might pinch or squeeze parts of the design. The clearer your ideas …
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The Benefits of Animated UI/UX GIFs Created with After Effects
