Hover Choreography: Interfaces That Acknowledge You
A good hover state is a conversation: the cursor asks, the element answers, its siblings step back. Group hovers, focus parity, and timing that feels intentional.
Scroll Snap: Storytelling in Full-Screen Chapters
Scroll snapping turns a page into chapters — carousels, onboarding flows, full-bleed stories — with pure CSS. And the discipline to know when not to.
Staggered Reveals: Choreography, Not Decoration
Twelve cards fading in at once reads as one blob. Stagger them 40ms apart and the eye follows a story. The rules of good stagger timing, in CSS.
FLIP: The Technique Behind Every Smooth Layout Animation
You cannot animate layout without jank — unless you invert it. FLIP turns expensive layout changes into cheap transforms, and it powers every smooth reorder you have seen.
linear() Easing: Real Springs in Pure CSS
cubic-bezier can only draw one hump — no bounce, no overshoot-and-settle. The linear() function ends that limit and brings true spring physics to CSS.
Why scroll-driven animations so good?
ScrollTrigger, native CSS scroll timelines, and viewport-relative units have changed everything about storytelling on the web.