Animation and design – the past, present and future

The history of animation goes back even farther than Mickey Mouse and steamboats, but they’ve entered a completely new era of interactivity thanks to HTML5, jQuery, and Javascript. In the beginning, animations were treated more as an aesthetic luxury (remember all those Flash splash pages?), and it’s now evolved into a powerful tool for smoothing over user interactions. And yet, when we look at the entire scope of past, present, and future, we see that the fundamentals remain unchanged – just with better implementation thanks to better technology. In this article, we’ll explore the practical forms and functions of web…

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