manymoats

The words for how things move.

Two vocabularies in one place. Five house seeds set a product's motion personality. The glossary names every effect you have ever seen and not known what to call. Describe what you saw and this page finds the word.

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The five seeds

house motion personalities

A product picks one seed and keeps it. Every card below is animated by its own seed, so what you see is what that product would feel like. The numbers are the real configs, not illustrations.

One seed per product.A property picks its personality once. Mixing seeds inside one product is the fastest way to read as slop, even when every individual animation is good.
Never delay the payload.A price, a credit balance, a metric, a search result: these appear instantly, always. Motion is for affordance, never for content the person came to read.

The glossary

Click any term to copy it. The ones marked live will show you what they mean.