S1:EP8 – What and why is web animation? (Rachel Nabors)

Web animation can be creative and fun, but what does it have to do with building a website? How do you use it in a form or a basic landing page in a way that's actually helpful and not just cute? Rachel Nabors helps us understand what web animation looks like and how to use it to create powerful user experiences. She also shares her own inspiring journey of going from cartoonist to coder.

Show Links

• Flatiron School (sponsor)
• DigitalCrafts (sponsor)
• Rachel Nabor's site
• AJAX
• Barba.js
• GreenSock
• Rachel Nabor's Courses
• Frontend Masters
• Rachel Nabor's blog post on storyboarding
• Airbnb's Lottie
• Animista
• Firefox Dev Tools Challenger
• Animation At Work from A List Apart (Rachel's book) - use promo code NEWBIE
• Web Animation Weekly
• Animation At Work Slack
• Bootstrap
• Foundation
• React Motion
• Don’t Do What You Love

Rachel Nabors

Rachel Nabors has been cultivating the web animation community for years. She has worked with the W3C and Mozilla on the Web Animations API, founded the Animation at Work community and wrote an A Book Apart book of the same name.

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