How to design animations?

To design animations effectively, you can explore several techniques and tools presented at WWDC. Here are some key insights from the sessions:

1. SF Symbols 6: This session introduces new universal animation presets such as wiggle, rotate, and breathe. These presets allow you to create expressive animations to enhance your app's interface. For example, the wiggle preset can highlight changes or call to action, while rotate can add dynamic movement to a symbol. The breathe animation smoothly increases and decreases the presence of a symbol, giving it a living quality. You can customize these animations using the SF Symbols app to ensure they fit your app's needs. What’s new in SF Symbols 6

2. Enhance your UI animations and transitions: This session discusses how SwiftUI, UIKit, and AppKit animations can work together more seamlessly. It introduces new features like fluid zoom transitions and gesture-driven animations. SwiftUI animations can now be used to animate UIKit views, simplifying your code and enhancing the animation experience. Enhance your UI animations and transitions

3. Create custom hover effects in visionOS: This session focuses on creating detailed effects by combining simple animations. It emphasizes the importance of respecting accessibility preferences, such as providing alternative effects for users with motion sensitivity. The session also covers using SwiftUI's default animations and custom timing curves for hover effects. Create custom hover effects in visionOS

By leveraging these tools and techniques, you can design animations that are not only visually appealing but also enhance the user experience by being purposeful and considerate of accessibility needs.