Easy Guide to UI Animation With AI

Hey everyone,

I just dropped a new video covering my 5 favorite ways to create UI animations with AI, and I also put together a full guide document with every keyword, prompt template, and resource you need to start animating your interfaces.

This newsletter breaks it all down for you.

Whether you are building a product, designing a landing page, or need marketing content for your app, animation is the single fastest way to increase the perceived quality of what you are making. Users interpret animated products as higher quality. Packaging always matters.

MagicPath is great for creating individual animated elements and combining them. You build components separately, then reference them inside other components using prompts.

What makes it unique: You can mention elements by name in your prompts. If you create a component called "Mousegrid," you can write "insert the interactive background of @Mousegrid" and it will merge them together.

Best for: Playing with individual animated elements like interactive grid backgrounds, hover buttons with beam outlines, and splash screen animations.

UX Pilot uses a more powerful AI model and creates full production-ready pages with animation built in. You include animation requests directly in your design prompts.

What makes it unique: It is backwards compatible with Figma. You can import your generated designs back into Figma with full editing capabilities and layout properties.

Best for: Full pages and websites where you want detailed, production-ready animated UI.

Framer is a no-code website builder with an AI feature called Workshop that creates animated components with customizable properties. The AI does not just generate the component. It generates the controls for modifying every aspect of it.

What makes it unique: When you create a component with Workshop AI, you get a full property panel with all the parameters to customize your component. All generated automatically by the AI. You can even ask it to add new properties in plain language. This is a truly revolutionary way to work with AI.

Best for: Building complete, responsive, animated websites that you can publish on a custom domain. Free to use.

Most animation tools are using Claude or similar models in the background anyway. The difference is they add design editing tools on top. If you just want the animated component, go straight to Claude.

Two paths depending on your needs:

Best for: Generating any animated element as code that you copy directly into your project. Consistent styling across multiple components in the same conversation.

Hera takes your Figma designs or screenshots and animates them into marketing videos and product demos. It recreates your design layers and animates them based on your prompts.

What makes it unique: You control camera movement, zoom, 3D flips, and number animations all through natural language prompts. Always use the "enhance prompt" and "high quality design" buttons for best results.

Best for: Product demos, social media posts, tutorials, and any marketing content where you need to showcase your UI in motion.

Beam Button

Grid Reveal Hero

Interactive Dot Grid Background

3D Tilt Card

Marketing Video (for Hera)

If you want to see animation done well, study these:

I put together a complete PDF guide with every animation category, movement keyword, easing cheat sheet, prompt template, styles lookbook, and tool recommendation from this newsletter and more.

That is everything. Animation is the fastest way to improve how users perceive your product. Even small motion design signals that you care about quality.

Go have fun animating.

-Jad