Motion Design Fundamentals

By Alex Rivera · 2,140 students enrolled ·

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Skills you'll gain

After Effects3D modelingBeginner

What you'll learn

Timing and spacing
Easing curves deep dive
The 12 principles applied to UI
When NOT to animate
Button states and feedback
Form validation animations
Toggle and switch transitions
Loading and progress indicators

Who this course is for

UI designers who want their screens to come alive
Designers tired of "imagine this animates" in handoff
Anyone moving from static design into motion

Requirements

No motion design experience needed
Any design tool you can export static screens from
After Effects helps but is not required for the core lessons

This course includes

≈ 3 weeks at 3h/week

8 hours of on-demand video
28 lessons
12 downloadable resources
Critique sessions (group q&a recordings)
Access on mobile and desktop
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Motion Design Fundamentals

Instructor · Alex Rivera

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About this course

Transform static designs into fluid, responsive interfaces with motion. This course covers the core principles of UI animation — timing, easing, spatial relationships, and choreography — then applies them to real interface patterns. You'll build 15 micro-interactions from scratch: loading states, page transitions, scroll-triggered reveals, hover effects, drag interactions, and notification animations. Each project starts with the design rationale and ends with production-ready exports. No prior motion design experience needed. If you can design a static screen, you can animate it.