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Amin Al Hazwani

Amin Al Hazwani is an Italian designer currently based in Berlin. He designs apps, builds websites, and teaches web and media design at the Free University of Bolzano (South Tyrol, Italy). He is interested in pattern libraries, CSS architectures, and animation. And he is passionate about everything typography-related.

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Motion with Meaning: Semantic Animation in Interface Design

Animation is fast becoming a mainstay of interface design, but one aspect of animation rarely gets discussed. Amin Al Hazwani and Tobias Bernard argue that adding animation to interfaces fundamentally changes them and necessitates a conceptual shift—an approach the authors call semantic animation. Individual screens shouldn’t be treated as separate entities if the transitions between them are animated; the entire experience is one continuous space.