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Recreating The Iconic 'Mouse in Manhattan' Scenery From Tom & Jerry Classic Cartoons

Tom and Jerry, the mischievous cat and clever mouse duo, have been captivating audiences for generations with their hilarious antics. As a child, I was capt ...



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How To Remove Watermarks From A Photo Like A Creative

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Free MiniCards From Moo.com

I’ve partnered with Moo.com to offer a free set of 100 MiniCards. It is absolutely free. All you have to pay is the shipping and handling fee. You can print up to 100 different images in one pack. Hurry now, this offer expires August 31, 2012.




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Migrating from GoDaddy Website Builder to WooCommerce

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2024 Black Friday trends: Top strategies from Woo stores and partners

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Motion Magic: Project Insights From My Viget Internship

When we open an app or website, we do so to accomplish a task or find information. A well-designed user experience ensures users can achieve their goals efficiently. But what keeps us engaged beyond basic functionality? What differentiates a mundane interface from an exciting one? In my opinion as an up and coming UI developer, one key element is motion.

During my summer internship at Viget, I had the opportunity to dive deep into the world of agency work. From getting the chance to contribute to client sites to participating in a hackathon and pursuing a personal project, I seriously leveled up my stack and gained valuable development experience. Not to mention the amount I learned from exceptional, dedicated mentorship and micro-classes on everything from React to SQL to business models. 

However, coming into the internship, I had the specific goal of learning how to add motion to my web projects. I walked in on day one with no idea where to start, and now I’m leaving my last week with a complex knowledge of Rive, canvas elements, JavaScript animation, GSAP, and more. Here’s how… 

Spinet

In this two week hackathon project, I worked alongside Faye and Paul, the Product Designer and App Developer interns, to create a spinning wheel name picker. During the first week, I took on branding and visual design work. 

I spent the second week implementing wireframes. Through this project I learned how to transform client specifications into design directions, a style guide, and ultimately, UI components.

For this app, the motion of the spinning wheel was critical to the experience. Initially, client feedback indicated that the spin felt too uniform. I adjusted the motion parameters by extending the slowdown time and changing the easing function from linear to cubic, which increased feelings of suspense at the end of the spin animation. 

To add a level of joy and celebration to the winner announcement popup at the end of a spin, I incorporated confetti animations. In doing so, I discovered the world of JavaScript animation libraries that make implementing animations as easy as simple as adding the script to my HTML and adjusting the timing and placement of the animation object. Finally, we had ultimately decided on a modern, clean-cut video game aesthetic for the branding, and pulled this in through inspired sound effects, the logo design, and a 3D button component with a click animation accomplished entirely through Tailwind. 

Luna chatbot

After the hackathon, I got the chance to work on a personal project of my choice: an AI mental health chatbot inspired by tools like Woebot and EarKick. I was motivated by the question of what could make conversational AI feel less intimidating and more empathetic. My answer was an AI support companion with an animated avatar to enhance feelings of emotional connection and understanding. 

To get started, I experimented with various chatbot APIs and found that the Llama3 model was the best at following system prompts and offered the most natural interactions. A huge part of this project was the chatbot’s expression animations. I surveyed several popular tools and found Rive was the best fit for this, offering intricate animation capabilities, easy web integration, and a state machine for managing overlapping states and complex transitions.

The first step of animating in Rive is to create a design. Luckily, Rive has a vibrant open-source community, and I learned a lot from examining and remixing community files. The second step was learning to create the animations themselves. This was my first time animating anything, but the concept of keyframes was relatively intuitive, and the UI reminded me of video editing software, like iMovie, I’d used in the past.

The third and most challenging step for me was making all the animations work together in a state machine. 

This is the logic that connects animations together, taking input values that determine when to transition between states. Getting smooth animations between emotional states required a lot of rewiring and experimenting. Finally, embedding the Rive file in my project and linking the emotion data from API responses to the animation inputs was relatively straightforward using vanilla JavaScript. 

In conclusion

Animations, whether simple or complex, add a layer of interactivity and visual interest to digital products. Over a short 10 weeks, my internship projects allowed me to explore UI development, modern animation tools, and motion using CSS and JavaScript.

If you’re interested in bringing ideas to life and sparking joy through motion design, then diving into a passion project, seeking inspiration from the community, and exploring tools like Rive and GSAP will definitely kickstart your journey!



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Holographic technology’s transition from science fiction to reality

In science fiction literature and films, holography has received much attention. These tales frequently depict holograms as entertainment, communication tools, or live creatures. Their depiction in these sources is typically far more sophisticated than what is now technologically feasible. Holography is beginning to play a more significant part in current communications and technologies as technology […]




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Top 50 Design Blog Articles and Sites From 2017

It’s nearly the the close of 2017. Lots has happened and I’ve been reading about UX, Design Thinking, Design Systems, Agile, Block Chain, Crypto currencies, Machine Learning, AI, Startups and plenty more. 2018 seems to be shaping up to be an exciting year for digital! (and maybe we’ll stop asking ourselves, why didn’t we all … Continue reading Top 50 Design Blog Articles and Sites From 2017

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Free advise from the pro’s in Vegas

WordCamp Las Vegas is taking place this weekend. But its a special event in collaboration with Blog World Expo! That means that it’s going to be a big crazy weekend for geeks and techies in the Vegas area. I will be working the WordPress genius bar inside the Las Vegas Convention center. So if you’re […]

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Prevent Birds from Hitting Windows

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Santa Fe National Forest Spared From Fracking

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From Research to Revenue: A Complete Guide to B2B Software GTM

Launching a new B2B software product requires a different approach than traditional go-to-market strategies. The business model you choose should align with varying types of products and market conditions, as it significantly influences overall sales success and the structuring of sales teams. The software space is crowded, and your potential customers are likely already using […]

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How Can We Better Support the Mental Well-Being of Veterans Returning from Service?

Military service is difficult, dangerous, and demanding. But for some veterans, returning to civilian life can also be a challenge. Going from the structure of active duty—with its purpose-driven roles, full-throttle environment, and sense of camaraderie—to the relatively humdrum life of a civilian can be jarring, particularly for veterans who’ve experienced trauma during their service and may suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).  Researchers at Boston University, including Dawne Vogt and Casey Taft—both professors of psychiatry in the Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine—are utilizing a variety of data-backed strategies to support veterans struggling to adapt to their new normal lives. 




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Make Art or Die? For Some Veterans Creating Art Can Heal from Trauma

Most people may be familiar with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and other common types of psychotherapy, but art therapy remains somewhat of a mystery to the general public. Not incorporating it into a treatment plan could be a huge missed opportunity for veterans who’ve experienced trauma and other patients in need of mental health support. “Art is a means of therapy and a way to heal,” says Marine Corps veteran Jerry Rael. “It helps me escape some of the things that I went through during my time in service.”  Art can also be therapeutic for families who have lost a loved one in battle, as seen in Make Peace or Die: Honor the Fallen. In the film, Marine Anthony Marquez carves battlefield crosses out of wood for each lost service member and then hand-delivers them to Gold Star families, including a grieving mother who had attempted suicide.




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Hybrid Immune Cells from Skull Bone Marrow Suppress Brain Cancer

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Harnessing Automated Insulin Delivery: Case Reports from Marathon Runners with Type 1 Diabetes

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New Materials Identified for Protecting Astronauts from Mars Radiation

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From Abyssal Depths to Astrobiology: How Dark Oxygen Is Shaping Our Understanding of Life

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Early Universe Black Holes: New Insights from Hubble's Latest Survey

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An Evolutionary Journey From Ancient Asgardians to Human Immunity

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Cannabis Use Linked to More Sick Days from Work

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A Good Mutation - This Genetic Variant Protects Babies from Jaundice

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From Shale Gas to Sustainable Water: New Methods for Recovering High-Demand Metals

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Early Universe Black Holes: New Insights from Hubble's Latest Survey

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Slides from parallel sessions

The slides used in the "Lies, Damn Lies and Web Statistics", "WHS WEB S IT NEWY? - Including Mobile Phone Users in the Loop" and "How to Find a Needle in the Haystack" parallel sessions and the report from the South East regional group on CMSs are now available. [2005-07-13]