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Portrait of Noor Varga — Jake Nackos on Unsplash
noor.varga 19h

Micro-interactions carry more weight than most teams budget for. A 120ms press state, a list that settles instead of snapping — those are the moments people read as craft, long before they read your copy. #interfacecraft

Top-down studio desk with a notebook of interaction sketches — by Top Down Tech, CC0
Motion timing code open on a studio monitor — by Lorenzo Cafaro, CC0
Portrait of Elias Brandt — Korede Adenola on Pexels
elias.brandt 16h

Agreed — and the cheapest version of this is honest feedback on every tap. We shipped a 90ms scale on our primary button and support tickets about "did it save?" dropped by a third.

Designer refining a button state at a desk — by Messala Ciulla, CC0
Portrait of Tamsin Okafor — Thanh Xuan Nguyen Ly on Pexels
tamsin.okafor 11h

The trap is doing it everywhere. Motion earns attention, so spend it on the two or three moments that actually carry risk — sending, deleting, paying.