How to make your app feel 10x better in 5 minutes.
🚀 Road to 1,000,000 #Votap users — Day 54 | Current: 1279
How to make your app feel 10x better in 5 minutes.
Animations.
Not everywhere.
Just in the right moments.
When a user:
→ achieves something
→ completes an action
→ gets a result
Those moments matter the most. That’s where you want to give a small mental reward. And that’s where tools like Lottie come in.
It’s an open-source animation format originally created by Airbnb. You basically:
→ download a small JSON file
→ plug it into your app
→ and you instantly have smooth animations
Works on iOS, Android, web… pretty much everywhere.
No need for complex 2D animation tools. No need to hire a designer for every small interaction. Just add a subtle animation at the right time, and suddenly your app feels alive. We’ve been adding this into Votap recently and it makes a huge difference.
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More tomorrow.
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Love how simple you made this sound. I always assumed animations were complicated and needed a designer but this feels doable for me now. I’m curious to test Lottie and see how it fits into my app. Those “reward moments” are something I’ve definitely been missing.
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@tamar_waziri I am glad it helped you. I use sites like https://lottiefiles.com which are catalogues for the Lottie files. You can get a lot of them free, but even paying a small subscription fee is way cheaper than hiring a designer. Good luck with your app!