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motion-design-principles

The craft layer for motion: pick the right easing (ease-in, ease-out, ease-in-out, spring), get timing and spacing right, build the anticipation-action-follow-through arc, and apply Disney's 12 principles to UI and product video. Use when animating any UI transition, modal, button, page load, or product-video scene, or when someone says "make this feel less janky", "smoother", "more polished", "the animation feels off", "why does this look cheap", or asks "ease-in or ease-out" / "spring or interpolate". Do NOT use for shot planning (use video-storyboard), directing a product demo (use product-demo-director), animating text (use kinetic-typography), timing to music (use sound-and-music-sync), platform reframing (use social-video-formatter), or color and light (use motion-color-and-light).

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# Motion Design Principles

This is the taste layer. It decides *how* something should move so it reads as
polished and intentional instead of janky, floaty, or cheap. It does not write
the code that plays the motion â<U+0080><U+0094> once you have decided the curve, the timing, and
the arc, that decision is the *input* to a directing/render skill (for product
video, hand it to **product-demo-director**) or to your CSS/JS transition (for
UI). Keep the two jobs separate: this skill owns the judgment; the directing
skill owns the orchestration and mechanics.

Fire on anything about how motion *feels*: "make this less janky", "smoother",
"more polished", "more alive", "the easing is off", "this looks cheap", "should I
ease-in or ease-out", "spring or interpolate".