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title: "Animation Principles - Air Market"
description: "Something on screen moves, but it feels off, and you cannot say why. This walks you through the craft behind motion - easing, staging, follow-through - for the one animation you are working on. Reach…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/animation-principles"
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[Air Market](/) / [Design](/category/design) / Animation Principles

Skill by [MC Dean](/@owl-listener)

# Animation Principles

Make one piece of motion feel right instead of just move

## What this does

Something on screen moves, but it feels off, and you cannot say why. This walks you through the craft behind motion - easing, staging, follow-through - for the one animation you are working on. Reach for it while you are tuning that specific movement, not when you are setting motion rules for a whole product.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Tune how a single animation feels
- Apply easing and staging to a UI motion
- Fix motion that lands awkwardly

## Information

**Animation Principles at a glance**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [MC Dean](/@owl-listener) |
| Category | [Design](/category/design) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Size | 2 KB |
| Licence | MIT |
| Repository | [Owl-Listener/designer-skills](https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/tree/20e34c4a587e5eb09fcdf8351fa97b3ad761b31e/interaction-design/skills/animation-principles) |
| GitHub stars | 2,144 (as of Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Animation Principles and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Animation Principles's check was run against**

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| --- | --- |
| Commit | 20e34c4a587e5eb09fcdf8351fa97b3ad761b31e |
| Content hash | 9c5c631b7016ddcad3fbee15a0d062e1c76ec7a50238db2aea540d74a48bd769 |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/blob/20e34c4a587e5eb09fcdf8351fa97b3ad761b31e/interaction-design/skills/animation-principles/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for Animation Principles](/security/animation-principles)

## About Animation Principles

This applies animation principles such as easing, staging and follow-through to one specific piece of UI motion. It is for the moment when you are tuning how an animation feels.

For product-wide duration and easing tokens, motion-system in design-systems is the place to go, and a full interaction spec belongs to micro-interaction-spec.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions

## Questions

### Is Animation Principles safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Animation Principles and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit 20e34c4a587e, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/animation-principles.

### How do I install Animation Principles?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/animation-principles on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/tree/20e34c4a587e5eb09fcdf8351fa97b3ad761b31e/interaction-design/skills/animation-principles. Install from that link, not the branch.

## Related on Air Market

- [More Design listings](/category/design)
- [Everything by MC Dean](/@owl-listener)

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Canonical URL: <https://airmarket.ai/app/animation-principles>