Motion UI - Emerging trend in the web application

A user will quickly lose his interest in your web application (app) if it not appealing or interactive. If it is just a dumb static web application, then user will quickly switch to another app of your competitor. User nowadays are not only focusing on the content of the app but also on how the app will quickly give results in minimal time and meet his expectations. Developers need to bring their app to “life”, increase movement, and overall create a ‘living’ site which reacts and changes according to each individual user.

Motion UI is a front-end framework used for building such fully responsive web designed apps. No longer are web applications two dimensional with boring experience. The Motion UI includes predefined motions that are easily accessible and can be put to use for any project. With 36% (or 2382 votes) it is stated by Forbes users that this will be the most important web development trend for you in 2017.

Motion UI is a SaaS library (Software as Service) provided by ZURB. It is widely used for quickly creating animations and CSS transitions. With Motion UI, it is less complicated to make an app’s transitions look smooth and rich with predefined motions. Motion UI has more than two dozen animation classes and built-in transition that make prototyping easy.  It is also possible to preview the effects with the help of library, when you navigate to a production environment. 

Latest Version:

The newest version of Motion UI works through flexible CSS patterns with all kinds of JavaScript libraries and enables seamless integration of animations into websites. The way prototypical animated elements integrate seamlessly into websites would definitely makes Motion UI one of the most preferred libraries by developers.

Elements of Motion UI

Animations:

• Animations are great way of telling a story and it is much simplified further by motion UI
• Animations and transitions allow designers to visualize change and differentiate content.
• Animations and transitions are moving effects that help users recognize when something changes on the site, for example they click on a button and a new piece of information appears on the screen.
• Adding movement to apps and websites improves user experience, as it allows users to make sense of content in a more intuitive way.
• Animations work great for loading spinners, creating eye-catching CTAs and for error states.
• The Motion UI includes CSS Animations for displaying content along with subtle effects and movement.
• Motion UI also powers some components of the Foundation framework, such as the Orbit slider, the Toggler switcher, and the Reveal modal, so it’s a pretty robust tool.

Physicality:

• Motion UI unable us to guide user throughout the website on how to operate things and move through website.
• Objects feels like they have actual physical mass and respond in ways that the human mind anticipates.
• They contract or stretch when moved. There is a level of realism so that users can relate.
•  In actual sense, it puts life into your website and so a sense of positive emotional response from user is generated.

Responsive:

• A Motion UI design is intuitive and responsive.
• This is because every reaction of the motion UI should be comprehensible and complementary to the user action.
• Don't forget that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, as Newton's Third Law of Physics tells us and that holds true for motion UI design.

Focusing merely on the latest design frameworks and techniques are not just the only things for building a great app. A good design should be governed primarily by the element of simplicity for a cleaner approach and better functionality. Using Motion UI wisely is a key to attract wide range of users to your site and keep them engaged on your site. 

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Mr Aditya Bhogale is budding IT professional with interests in the field of Web applications. He is regular follower of the recent trends in this domain and through his blogs ensures that he highlights the same to the world. He can be contacted further on aditya.b@getitrevamp.com