Due to recent challenges with the Coronavirus, this workshop is now delivered ONLINE via Zoom.
Animation for Digital Products
A Live After Effects Workshop
For UX/UI & Product Designers
Time: 3.5 hours | Location: Zoom
These weekly live workshops are held over Zoom. Due to the technical and hands-on nature of the workshop (After Effects training), each workshop is limited to 5 participants. If this week is full, you will be placed on the waitlist for the following week.
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Leveling up your team during a pandemic
With the Coronavirus outbreak, it seems like a lot of work has slowed or even stopped.
Your team doesn't have to.
To accommodate demand, I've moved my 'Animation for Digital Products' workshop online with Zoom. I will help your team learn how to produce 'implementation ready' animations from their design files in a matter of hours.
- Imagine seeing your team empowered to experiment with animation.
- Imagine going to a meeting and seeing your team excitedly sharing new icon animations and transition ideas during their presentations.
- Imagine hearing your designers critiquing animation with an eye for every small detail, creating animation that delights your users.
- Imagine going from conversations about how 'we wish we had animation' to actually seeing it in your product.
Real world results
For the last several years I've been getting product teams on-boarded with animation in their products using Adobe After Effects.
I’ve trained the teams at Airbnb, Dropbox, Slack, Kayak, Oracle, Salesforce, Capital One, and more.
This training is easy and even designers with no animation experience can pick it up. Your designers will be excited to continue to experiment and propose new animation ideas for your product.
I've been teaching these workshops for the last 7 years and thousands of designers have gone through my training.
I know how to help your design team use animation to take more ownership in their projects and produce tangible, high quality results.
Schedule a call with me, and I’ll work with you to meet your team goals.
Wash your hands and stay safe.
Sincerely,
Issara Willenskomer
Founder and instructor at UX in Motion
We're all in this together
Workshop Outcomes
Import Assets From Existing Tools
Learn how to work with existing design files from Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD, Illustrator, or Photoshop.
Animation for Product Design Workflow
Learn how to animate their product design assets in After Effects, and create engineer-ready assets.
High Quality Deliverables
Learn industry standard best practices to make all motion polished and professional.
Level Up Your Team
Learn how to develop and iterate animation ideas and take ownership on even the smallest details.
Blow Stakeholders Away
Learn how to develop sharable high quality presentation deliverables that move projects forward.
Synergize Team Collaboration
Streamline communication between designers and engineers with animation deliverables.
Expanding Designer Ownership with Product Animation
π‘ Ideation
Develop team capacity to generate and iterate animation solutions to support usability and delight your users.
π Execution
Translate existing project source files into high fidelity professional animation.
πΏ Presentation
Designers will learn how to present motion ideas to stakeholders in a varity of formats and scenarios, including video, GIF and JSON file renders.
π Hand-off
Streamline communication with engineers for implementation, and avoid common and costly asset mistakes.
Instructor feedback
Participants will receive hands-on instructor review and feedback on work performed during the workshop, ensuring all designers are able to deliver professional animation in their projects.
A game changing combination: Adobe After Effects and LottieFiles
Design, present, and deliver your product animations at the highest possible fidelity using Adobe After Effects, the industry standard tool of choice.
LottieFiles is the future of Animation and Interactive Design. Simply edit and ship your animations in just a few clicks.
LottieFiles: a powerful new tool for Designers
The LottieFiles platform provides an unprecedented opportunity for UX Designers to present and deliver high quality animation assets with ease. Participants will be proficient in the following tools.
β LottieFiles Website
Test animations without writing a single line of code, tweak and perfect your Lottie animations instantly across web, iOS and Android.
β LottieFiles App
Validate, present, and edit Lottie Animations directly on your iOS or Android phone.
β LottieFiles AE Plugin
Preview your Lottie animations instantly across web and mobile devices right within After Effects.
Learn to animate designs made in...
Have questions about the workshop?
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“As a designer it is crucial to be able to pitch and sell your designs. Knowing the vocabulary and informed reasoning will help you get traction of your design by the stakeholders and team members. This workshop has helped on that.”
Mhung, UX Designer, Mindbody, San Luis Obispo
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“Our team learned how the language and vocabulary of motion in user experiences differs from classic motion design. These foundational elements help inform our decisions in regards to ongoing instruction from Issara.”
Christopher, Communication Designer, Slack, San Francisco
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“A solid workshop that explains the principles of motion in user experiences. This helps our developers, designers, and product managers develop vocabulary and mental models which will enhance our communication quality.”
Bruce, Software Developer, Kayak, Boston
Due to recent challenges with the Coronavirus, this workshop is now delivered ONLINE via Zoom.
Issara Willenskomer
Instructor
Issara Willenskomer is an award-winning designer and educator. With over 15 years of interaction and motion design experience, Issara has worked with an impressive list of clients including Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, Nordstrom, Amazon, HBO, MTV, AT&T, Motorola, T-Mobile, UNAIDS, HTC, Philips, and more. Issara has personally trained the design teams in the topic of motion and usability, at Dropbox, Slack, Airbnb, Salesforce, Oracle, Capital One, and more. Thousands of UX Designers around the world have used his training and read his articles. Issara currently teaches animation for product design both online and in the real world.
FAQs
Are the number of participants limited?
Yes. Due to the technical and hands-on nature of the content (After Effects). I am limiting the number of participants to 5. If you have more team members, we may schedule multiple workshops.
How will this work exactly?
Prior to the workshop, Issara will work with all participants to make sure they are set up for success. The workshop is a combination of step-by-step training and hands on exercises presented over Zoom.
Can remote team members attend?
Yes, the workshop is 100% remote.
Do you offer a full day Animation for Product Design workshop or a longer workshop split into 2 half days?
Yes, please schedule a call for more info.
Do you also teach motion ideation frameworks agnostic of software?
Yes, I have a 'Creating Usability with Motion' workshop that I also teach live over Zoom. The ideation frameworks teach designers how to design animation that partners with the UX and user Mental Models. You can learn more about those outcomes here.
Where can I find the workshop prices?
Please contact Issara for pricing.
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“This workshop made me notice the smaller details in transitions. As an app developer, applying the 12 Principles whenever appropriate will definitely make the customers of my app happy.”
Peeral, App developer at Lutron, Philadelphia
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“This workshop offers you a chance to quickly learn and discuss high level usability and motion examples in an open format. Wishing I could do this workshop weekly with my entire team!”
Andre, Visual Designer, Bank of America, Oakland
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“Very helpful in allowing me to ‘see’ motion. Before this workshop I glazed over the motion or saw it more as a delight element. Now I have the language and awareness to analyze motion effectiveness and the understanding to start designing supportive motion for UX.”
Cura, UX Designer, Cisco, San Jose
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"Issara knows what he is talking about and is tremendously experienced/read in motion. He helped us develop a language and an eye for good motion vs bad. I think we should be able to take off after the workshop!!"
Rhythm, UX Designer, Lutron, Coopersburg
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“Transitioning the language from ‘swoosh’ to ‘easing/offset and delay’ offers a different level of confidence when presenting and justifying solutions. Linguistics frameworks! Learning about easing curves was really helpful too!”
Mason, Lead UX Designer at Mindbody, San Luis Obispo
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"This workshop has been helpful in breaking down motion into talking points to be able to discuss why or why not something’s working. Running through examples also helps to see how one would critique motion, as well as dissect why it’s done that way and the meaning it was meant to convey. Overall, I think this course has helped to look at motion with a critical and dissecting eye to improve or recreate."
Jennifer, UX/UI Designer at Lutron, Coopersburg
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“This workshop was great for understanding how motion can either help or hinder usability. We discussed both good and bad uses of motion in real-world products. This workshop also supplied us with a common vocabulary that facilitates discussion and idea exchange.”
Liliana, Engineering Manager, Kayak, Boston
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“I came to this workshop with no knowledge on motion and walked away with a really good perspective on principles on motion, and analyzing motion design examples to learn from them and when/where to add delight and value to the product.”
Angad, Interaction Designer, Cisco, San Jose
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“Having a standard/common language to share ideas about motion in UX is key to collaborating, and pitching motion design concepts. Also understanding the difference between motion for entertainment vs similar principles for UX goals.”
John, CTO/Developer, The Campfire Union, Winnipeg
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"I really loved the workshop! I liked the clear frameworks that I can use both to evaluate and branstorm in the motion space. The hands on exercises were great!"
Gloria, Product Designer, Dropbox, San Francisco
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"The pacing of the presentation was perfect. Spacing out the lectures and exercises was done very well. In addition to the Ideation detailed overview, I thought the stakeholder presentation exercise was incredible value and so very useful to developing a great process of design. It truly is the most informative and comprehensive workshop I've participated in."
Eric, UX/UI Designer, N3TWORK, San Francisco
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"Great balance of theory with practical examples. Engaging presentation – made time fly by! Loved the practical discussions at the end. Love that your passion is so palpable. Great space to ask questions too. Thank you!"
Vivienne, Product/UX Designer, Shopify, Ottawa
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“The workshop is a great foundation for any level of designer to help build a vocabulary and way of thinking about motion in product design."
Phil, Product Designer, Dropbox, San Francisco
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"Amazing quality of the workshop. Issara is an excellent instructor, he knows his craft, and really appreciate how hands onthe workshop was."
Kaustubh, UX Designer, Salesforce, San Francisco
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"Great real world examples! Lots of good and bad examples. Interesting activities like drawing examples of UX in motion from A to B. Great way to learn vocabulary. Developers should not be scared to attend. Lots of WebDev examples and tools!"
Jocelyne, Chief Design Officer, Lumo Interactive, Winnipeg
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"Loved this workshop! Lots of examples, which really helps me as a visual learner. I think it was great to hear how motion is applied in the UX context. I previously utilized Disney’s 12 Principles in motion/animation, but these didn’t always apply to interface objects. These Principles of UX in Motion really help me visualize motion directly connected to my designs."
Mimi, Product Designer, SAP, San Francisco
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"This workshop is very conceptual, and you'll learn how motion impacts UX. It will also give you the tools to help inform your decisions and be able to talk to them."
Adrian, Art Director, Product, Mindbody, San Luis Obispo
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"The class is excellent for a designer who is looking to learn motion design at a foundational level. It helps you to understand how to use motion meaningfully and what interactions there are usable. The class is packed with examples that helps you understand motion principles conceptually and clearly. Issara also encouraged us to develop a vocabulary to articulate your motion design projects."
Shurami, UX Designer, Green Leaf, San Mateo
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"The class was great with lots of examples to illustrate how motion can support or undermine the UX."
Angela, Product Designer, Scribd, San Francisco
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"The workshop is awesome and has deep thinking that is needed in this industry!"
Jory, Designer/Developer, Manoverboard, Winnipeg
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"Good good… Quick way to get an overview of how to rethink motion and how it can enhance user experiences."
Ricky, Product Designer, Sofi, San Francisco
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"I thought the workshops and exercisess were very useful and got our team thinking in practical ways about motion. Introducing the right vocabulary was also very useful."
Alkistis, UX Designer, Kayak, Boston
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"This was a very helpful workshop. It helped me learn and understand how to use motion terminology to pitch my ideas. The group exercises were helpful and were great practice for real work situations."
Christine, UI/UX Artist, N3TWORK, San Francisco
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"This workshop covers everything from using motion in your projects to conveying your ideas and sell your ideas to stakeholders. I've learned a lot and will apply this to all my projects."
Hanah, Designer, Salesforce, San Francisco
Schedule a call
Schedule a call with Issara to discuss team goals and outcomes
"After reading Issara's article on motion and usability, I sent him an email. We scheduled a call, which led to us booking a workshop with 12 of our designers and developers."
– Steven Rossan, Senior Product Manager, MindBody, San Luis Obispo
