What problem does it solve?
Many user interfaces feel sluggish or inconsistent because animations are either too heavy, affect layout, ignore accessibility, or lack clear timing and easing guidelines; this Skill provides focused patterns to make interactions feel intentional and performant.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Performance-first patterns: Guidance to use GPU-accelerated transforms and opacity to avoid layout and paint costs.
- Timing & easing rules: Recommended durations for micro-interactions, state changes, and complex transitions with enter/exit easing conventions.
- Common, reusable patterns: Ready approaches for button presses, fades, slides, modals (scale-in), staggered lists, spinners, pulsing indicators, and scanning/glow effects.
- Accessibility & resilience: Instructions to respect prefers-reduced-motion and keep interactions predictable on low-end devices.
Quick Start
Use the animation-patterns skill to implement a smooth button press, fade-in modal, or staggered list animation in your Tailwind-based UI.