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kstenerudtoday at 12:38 PM0 repliesview on HN

Or, just stop using so many animations.

In most UIs, it feels like they're animated for the sake of being animated. Very rarely do I say "Ah, I'm glad that was animated, because the transition would be confusing otherwise."

Things like this are part of the reason why operating systems that used to measure in the tens of megabytes now measure in the tens of gigabytes, and require chips 1000x more powerful in order to MAYBE reach the same level of snappiness (although usually not).