LottieFiles
By LottieFiles
LottieFilesJun 04, 2021
#9 - The Origins and Evolution of Lottie with Gabriel Peal
Nattu and Gabe reminisce about the origins of Lottie and talk about its evolution and challenges on the way. They discuss the impact and how Lottie is revolutionizing motion in design. Tune in to the podcast for the entire journey.
#8 - Motion as A Solution to Problems with Issara Willenskomer
Issara is the founder of UX in Motion, an education platform that helps UX/UI & Product Designers learn and deploy UI animation fast. Issara has spent two decades working with high impact teams at Microsoft, HBO, T-Mobile, Facebook, Twitter, Xbox, MTV, Motorola, Target, Amazon, Nordstrom, UNAIDS, IDEO, and Artefact to name a few. His in-person and virtual workshops have been attended by thousands of UX/UI & Product designers from teams at Dropbox, Airbnb, Slack, Oracle, Salesforce, Kayak, MindBody, and many more.
On this episode, we discuss a range of topics including the benefits of specialization, the priority of UX, keeping up with new generations of users, and his predictions for the impact of Lottie on the future of motion. Check out Issara's FREE LottieFiles Icon Animation Course For UX/UI & Product Designers.
- 01:28 - Origin Story_
- 02:58 - The Moment It All Changed
- 05: 23 - Competing Against Amazing Teenage Designers
- 08:37 - Specializing in Something That is Unique To You
- 11:33 - Motion as a tool to solve problems
- 14:52 - The priority of UX
- 18:09 - Motion + UX
- 22:16 - Too much motion or not enough
- 22:15 - Keeping up with Gen-Z
- 27:31 - Lotties in the wild
- 29:47 - The last 6yrs of Lottie
- 32:12 - Predictions for Lottie
- 34:35 - Free LottieFiles course on UX in Motion
- 36:10 - Coming Soon! A course on Design Systems for Motion
- 38:32 - Ethics in Design
- 42:37 - Guest Suggestions for The LottieFiles Podcast
- 43:35 - Reach out to Issara
# 7 - Sparked by LottieFiles with Yarzar Zaw
Yarzar Zaw is a UI/UX design professional with a love for 2D and 3D animation. He is also an avid gamer and pokemon collector, whose work is influenced by the cartoons and entertainment he consumed as a kid and continues to collect to this day. We spoke about his journey to be the person he always wanted to be and how LottieFiles sparked his decision to get back his love for animation and 3D motion. If you're a designer, animator, or app developer in Myanmar, you definitely want to have Yarzar Zaw in your network. Produced by @edmundamoye
- 02:17 - A Toy Story
- 04:00 - Turning Constraints into Advantages
- 05:55 - Inflection Points
- 07:58 - Sparked by LottieFiles
- 09:14 - OnePay: Myanmar's Super App
- 10:14 - Discovering LottieFiles
- 11:30 - The Role of Animation in Mobile Apps
- 13:41 - Lottie Workflow and Collaboration b/w Designers, Devs, Animators, UX/UI Pros, Marketers, etc
- 15:17 - Mini-teardown of The OnePay Mobile App
- 19:31 - It Takes More Effort to be Minimal
- 21:31 - Lottie Connects People All over The World
- 25:03 - No More Questions because of Lottie
- 26:47 - Summaries and Predictions
- 30:25 - What's Next for Yarzar
- 31:35 - Advice for a Younger Yarzar
- 34:08 - Help Yarzar on his journey.
- 37:18 - Yarzar's Process
#6 - Lowering the Barrier of Entry to Animation with Sam Osborne
Sam Osborne is a full-stack developer and self-taught animator thanks to discovering Lottie animations. Sam now creates Lottie animations as well as helping out creating open-source libraries, tutorials and courses on using Lottie. Produced by @edmundamoye
- 2:03 - Sams Intro
- 03:20 - Origin Story
- 06:20 - Designer + Developer
- 07:31 - Teaching Makes You a Better Learner
- 08:50 - Upskilling and Giving Back Through Open Source
- 11:06 - The Developer POV - Lowering the Barrier of Entry to Animation
- 12:57 - Sam's Favorite Lotties
- 14:08 - Power to the Users
- 17:50 - Lots of Lotties
- 20:05 - Too Much of A Good Thing
- 21:49 - Sam's Top Secret Projects
- 23:31 - Lessons Learned
- 24:13 - Advice for Your Younger Self
- 25:48 - The Future of Lottie
#5 - The Changing UX and Design Industry with Christian San Jose
Christian San Jose (CSJ) is a veteran UX expert, design leader, manager, and founder of agencies and technology startups. On this episode, we talked to CSJ about how technology, geography, and community experiences are impacting the way UX experts and designers deliver value and build engaging portfolios. We discussed the origins of the Graphika Conference; and learned about his big vision for the UX+ Conference and UX+ University (there's a Lottie on the page). Produced by @edmundamoye
- 01:16 - Guest Intro
- 03:17 - Why CSJ Teaches UX
- 04:38 - Building a Portfolio with Icons - Albert Pujols, Kobe Bryant, etc
- 07:28 - Quitting a Day Job to Being an Employer
- 08:49 - Conferences - Graphika, UX+
- 10:47 - UX, Motion, and NoCode
- 13:15 - Using New Mediums to Elevate What You Learn
- 17:36 - The Value of Motion and the Ooprtunities for UX and Design Communities
- 20:58 - UX+ Conference
- 24:59 - UX+ University
#4 - Learning Lottie from Scratch with Chethan KVS
Product Designer Chethan stumbled across Lottie as it first started creeping onto the scene. With no one to show him the ropes, he had to learn through trial and error how to create working Lottie animations in After Effects.
In this chat recorded back in April, Chethan talks to us about discovering Lottie, how he went about learning it, how the LottieFiles tools help him in his animation process, and his tips for designers thinking of getting into Lottie animating.
Tools Chethan uses:
• LottieFiles for After Effects
• LottieFiles for Figma
• Figma.AEUX
Chethan's Social:
• LottieFiles
• Dribbble
• Instagram
• YouTube
• Website
#3 - Animation in Product Design at Swiggy with Saptarshi Prakash
Swiggy Product designer Saptarshi Prakash joins us on the LottieFiles podcast to talk about how Lottie animations are used in Swiggy's product design to bring things to life.
#2 - The Origins: LottieFiles with Nattu Adnan
In this episode we sit down with Nattu Adnan, one of the founders of LottieFiles, to talk about how Lottie and LottieFiles came to be.
As mentioned in the podcast, this is the page that explains the history of Lottie 👉 What is Lottie?
#1 - Making Figma for LottieFiles with Karam
Karam chats to us about the incredibly well received LottieFiles for Figma plugin. In our very first attempt at a podcast, we chat with its developer and visit the how and why this plugin came about.
Install it here
Due to the limitations we are facing as we all working from our own homes and with our recording equipment trapped in the office, we did this over a call so please excuse if the audio is not ideal. We worked within our means :)