I'm ambiguous. While it seems cool, it might encourage people to try it out just for an animation, thus meaning a bunch of random loves being given out.

support nice little thing

EDawg2011 wrote:

Support only if there was an option to turn it off, but it would be nice.

…why would you wanna turn it off?

Animations are typically a bad idea in UI design from a UX perspective:

- They draw attention away from the main content of the page (you'd think people would get used to this eventually, but no)
- They influence decisions - buttons that are animated are more likely to be pressed (I remember this being why the like/subscribe buttons in Youtube got animated)
- They're annoying: people don't want people jumping around in the page whenever they press a button - it gets in the way and can be visually distracting, even if it's only half a second

So this would probably result in:

- People spending less time looking at projects
- Higher like counts (which isn't really a good thing - it indicates that people aren't really considering the project to the same degree)
- A 200ms burst of sensory overload whenever the like button is pressed

Tripartite lists are my passion; this one is here to clarify that,

- Yes, this really happens and is a serious consideration for UI designers, look it up
- I'm not claiming that someone will press the button solely to play the animation, but rather that they are more likely to
- Yes I personally dislike UI animations, they're so unnecessary and get in the way without providing a benefit beyond “ooh shiny”