{"id":27593,"date":"2016-09-02T18:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T23:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/ala-designing-interface-animation\/"},"modified":"2016-10-01T16:20:15","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T21:20:15","slug":"ala-designing-interface-animation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/ala-designing-interface-animation\/","title":{"rendered":"[#ALA] Designing Interface Animation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <i>A List Apart: The Full Feed<\/i> &#8211;<a title=\"Designing Interface Animation: an Interview with Val Head\" href=\"http:\/\/alistapart.com\/article\/designing-interface-animation-interview-with-val-head\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"offsite\"><strong>Designing Interface Animation: an Interview with Val Head<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: left;\"><p><em style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; color: #666;\"><span style=\"font-size: 3.5em; font-weight: bold;\">&#0147;<\/span><br \/>\n<a title=\"Designing Interface Animation: an Interview with Val Head\" href=\"http:\/\/alistapart.com\/article\/designing-interface-animation-interview-with-val-head\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"offsite\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/images\/tutorials\/web-tools.png\" alt=\"Designing Interface Animation: an Interview with Val Head\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>A note from the editors:<\/b> To mark the publication of <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/books\/designing-interface-animation\/\">Designing Interface Animation<\/a><\/cite>, ALA managing editor <a href=\"http:\/\/alistapart.com\/author\/mmcpheeters\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"offsite>Mica McPheeters<\/a> and editor <a href=\"http:\/\/alistapart.com\/author\/carenlitherland\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"offsite>Caren Litherland<\/a> reached out to Val Head via Google Hangouts and email for a freewheeling conversation about web animation. The following interview has been edited for clarity and brevity. <i>Animation is not new, of course, but its journey on the web has been rocky. For years, technological limitations compelled us to take sides: Should we design rich, captivating sites in Flash? Or should we build static, standards-compliant sites with HTML and CSS (and maybe a little JavaScript)?<\/i><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 3.5em; font-weight: bold;\">&#0148;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"READ MORE: Designing Interface Animation: an Interview with Val Head\" href=\"http:\/\/alistapart.com\/article\/designing-interface-animation-interview-with-val-head\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"offsite\"><strong><big>READ MORE &raquo;<\/big><\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A note from the editors: To mark the publication of Designing Interface Animation, ALA managing editor Mica McPheeters and editor Caren Litherland reached out to Val Head via Google Hangouts and email for a freewheeling conversation about web animation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scripting-and-coding"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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