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@Figma Motion is not trying to replace After Effects and I think that is the right call.
What it does instead is remove the excuse. Designers who never touched motion now have animation tools inside a tool they already know. The animation templates get you to pro-level output faster than you expect. For most client deliverables, that is enough.
Right off the bat, there are a few limitation, sound, compositing, expression-level control. But the ceiling is also not the point. The point is the floor just got higher for every designer who was not doing motion before.
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Quickchat AI builds no-code AI Agents that handle real work - customer support, sales, internal ops - reading docs and resolving conversations on their own. As the product scaled, the brand needed to catch up: something as sharp and credible as the tech itself, in a market where every AI startup looks the same.
I could have leaned into something loud - a mark morphing through wild transformations, motion for the sake of motion. Instead the direction was restraint. The wordmark reveals with one clean underline stroke. The icon wakes up letter by letter before landing on the final mark, closing on a small wink instead of a flourish 😉.
Every timing decision was intentional: fast enough to feel instant, controlled enough to feel trustworthy. That's the whole brief in one sentence.
The palette stayed just as disciplined 🎨 - one electric blue carrying the energy, one warm yellow breaking up the dark neutrals. Nothing decorative, everything load-bearing.
Where do you draw the line between motion that shows a product's personality and motion that's just there to show off?
Amazing work
Unused, but never wasted.
A collection of mark explorations from projects we worked on together with Unspoken Agreement:
Really grateful for the trust, the collaboration, and the space to experiment. Not every mark becomes the final identity, but every one plays a part in getting there.
This is impressive! ✨✨