Motion Design That Doesn't Tank Performance
Animate cheap properties only
Transform and opacity run on the compositor at 60fps; width, height, top, and box-shadow trigger layout and paint per frame. Every animation gets reviewed for property cost before easing curves — physics can't fix layout thrash.
Respect reduced motion
prefers-reduced-motion disables non-essential animation entirely — vestibular disorders make parallax genuinely nauseating for some users. Essential state changes still communicate via opacity fades, never motion-dependent reveals.
Budgets and springs
Cap concurrent animations, prefer CSS/spring-physics over JS timers, and lazy-mount below-fold animated components. Delight is a performance budget line item: 3–5ms frame allowance, measured on Moto-G hardware, not MacBooks.
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