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

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