Transitions, simple colors, and thin lines are all the rage right now. These animations can be added to your mobile app to enhance your user interface.
People process visual pictures 60,000 times faster than text. To notice moving objects, we need less than 0.01 seconds.
After working on dozens of UI animation projects, designing interfaces for various platforms, and doing extensive research on user interfaces (UI), I decided to compile all the valuable insights I could about how to use UI animations to improve a mobile app.
The upcoming animation trends include thin lines, color simplicity, unusual fonts, shape transitions, as well as tricks with dimensions. Let’s begin by looking at how these trends can be implemented into your products.
- Linear Art Effect
- Color Laconism
- Brave Typography
- Morphing
- 2D+3D
- Animation of the logo
- Grain
- Buttonless Transitions
- Futuristic Animations
- Roughness
1. Linear Art Effect
In the coming months, expect to see many thin lines. Linear art is growing in popularity. Incorporating thin lines into static elements and videos is a growing trend. Thin lines give your videos a more unique and hand-drawn look and can be used to create a feeling an artistic effect.
This Hello Monday’s animation, for example, perfectly illustrates the studio’s creativity.
The animation shows how the figure to the right can change the look, size, and shape of the figure to the left by simply moving her hand.
It looks like the animation was sketched on a piece of paper. But it is now alive thanks to its thin lines.
2. Color Laconism
The minimalism and simplicity of animation trends also apply to color. Instead of using a wide range of colors, focus on just two or three colors to create a design that is more sophisticated and expressive.
This animation was created by the designer using shades of light pinks and blues to create a minimalist widget for the player.
Bright colors grab the attention of users and encourage them to interact with it. The enhanced user interface (UI), makes it easier to interact with it.
The Glyph isn’t the only one who uses color laconism. Apple, Acne Studios, and Airbnb have all already adopted this trend.
3. Brave Typography
Fonts were something we all grew up believing was unchangeable. But this year, it is not so. Traditional typography is no more in fashion.
New or unusual typography is more in fashion. This new trend allows you to express your brand’s values, communicate your brand’s ideas and impress customers.
This monochrome website layout, for example, relies heavily on typography to create a visual hierarchy.
This designer created a unique font using a sans serif typeface. However, he played with the sizes and widths of each letter to make it stand out. Notice how “U”, “F” and “E” are twice as smart as other letters like “U” or T.
The design is distinctive even without color.
4. Morphing
Morphing refers to an animation technique where one image or shape seamlessly transforms into another. This metamorphosis can be very captivating and may encourage users to spend more time on the page to see the final result.
It can also optimize your SEO by encouraging clients to spend more time on the app or website.
This animated graphic, for example, transforms as it rotates into a sphere or a cube.
Because the effect is so striking, users are more inclined to stop and observe it for longer than a few seconds.
5. 2D + 3D
Combining 2D and 3D is not a trend that’s gone by. The trend is continuing this year. Motion designers continue to incorporate both 2D/3D in their work.
For example, this animation is primarily two-dimensional but includes some 3D elements. The animation’s beginning features a cartoon drawing of a person in two dimensions. However, it uses shadows underneath the feet and legs to give the animation a 3D appearance. You can also see distance and perspective through the phone.
The cartoon is then “sucked” into the social media phone, where it appears completely two-dimensional.
The designer’s concern about the rise of social media addiction in modern times is emphasized by the use of 3D and 2-dimensional elements.
6. Logo Animation
The logo design is essential for creating a first impression of your brand. Logo animation has reached a new level.
Animation is a more effective visual representation of your logo than static images, typography, or typewriting. It creates an impression for your customers’ first impressions of your brand.
This trend was implemented by Slack when it launched its new logo. They used their existing logo as a starting point and then rearranged it into the primary colors of their brand. This animation shows their old logo as four dots: one green, one blue, and one yellow.
They then rotate 360o and transform it into their new logo. The logo’s name is added to Slack’s, making it easy for people to understand what the animation is advertising. This was a great way to let Slack know their new logo and to show that things are changing.
7. Grain
Graining can be used to enhance photos and make them look more natural. This allows companies to display surfaces and textures more clearly. This UI animation has also been embraced by video formats.
This animation from Humdinger & Sons includes grain.
To make the character’s movements more apparent, the designer alters grain density.
8. Buttonless Transitions
Buttonless transitions will be a continuation of the upcoming animation trends that are grounded in simplicity, minimalism, and minimalism. Designers should avoid using sharp and rough moves to create smooth transitions.
Designer Daniel Tan, for example, experimented with this trend by creating a new vision for Tokyo’s 2020 Olympic Sports Website. They created a continuous animation sequence that demonstrated the user interface (UI) to bring The Games’ energy and dynamism to life.
Clicking on a sport will zoom in, and then slowly unfold to reveal the results page. This creates an amazing effect.
9. Futuristic Animations
Futuristic animations combine bizarre objects in a crazy way to make them interact.
This design involves electricity flowing through a person’s ears, a water slide coming from their mouth, and electric glasses.
Because each feature is unique, the animation is very striking. It is striking because they are not usually paired together. This catches the attention of the audience.
10. Roughness
In design, simplicity, and minimalism are the top features. However, brutality is also a popular feature. Motion designers often combine rough sketches with unretouched videos to create animations that are connected to reality.
Take a look at the Square’s latest design. It reflects the ’90s. They use pop-ups and vibrant images as well as layers to create their visual identity.
Contrast the minimalism of today’s online images with bright images and harsh elements.
Minimalism Leads Popular UI Animation Trends
Animations are an integral part of any interface. They help users see things clearly and create a more beautiful digital product.
There are many appealing and useful animations that we see every day. However, certain patterns and trends stand out. Simplicity, minimalism, and realism are the current top trends.
Designers have begun to emphasize dimensions, grain, and smooth transitions to add credibility and simplicity to animation.
To add these animations to your mobile application, partner with an app development company.
