# 7 Practical Animation Tips

Essay by Emil Kowalski (https://emilkowal.ski)

Simple ideas you can use to improve your animations.

Topics: Motion
Source: https://emilkowal.ski/ui/7-practical-animation-tips

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Skills in this library that act on the same ground:

- emil-design-eng (https://www.stackskills.dev/md/emil-design-eng): The design-engineering house style behind Sonner and Vaul.
- animate (https://www.stackskills.dev/md/animate): Builds an animation from scratch, decisions in the order that matters.
- review-animations (https://www.stackskills.dev/md/review-animations): Reviews your motion strictly, against Emil's rules.
- improve-animations (https://www.stackskills.dev/md/improve-animations): Audits every animation in a codebase and hands back prioritised plans.
- find-animation-opportunities (https://www.stackskills.dev/md/find-animation-opportunities): Finds where motion would genuinely help, and says what not to animate.

## The short version

Emil's early assumption was that good animation is a knack you either have or you do not. This piece is the counter-argument, in the form of seven specific moves you can apply today. Scale a button to 0.97 on press so the interface feels like it is listening. Never start from scale(0), because nothing appears out of nothing. Drop the delay on a second tooltip once the first is already open. The rest cover easing, hover behaviour and the small corrections that add up.

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