To get good animations from an AI you need to get good at telling it what you want: - "stagger this list of items" - "make this animation direction-aware" - "spacial consistency", "crossfade", "layout animation", I made a motion vocabulary for this: animations.dev/vocabulary↗
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·@emilkowalski·Jun 2, 2026·tool·animation-vocabulary·animations-dev·layout-animation·motion-patterns
Quick demo of the animations.dev skill file. Improve any animation based on my knowledge and experience gathered over the years:↗
New lesson for upcoming animations.dev enrollment. It’s about training your judgement. You’ll see two versions of the same animation, your job is to choose one and explain why it’s better. A great skill to have when working with coding agents like Claude Code and Codex↗
Wrote about how I built my animation course. How I thought about its content, design, marketing, and more. emilkowal.ski/ui/building-an…↗