#8 - Motion as A Solution to Problems with Issara Willenskomer

The LottieFiles Podcast

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