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Nattu and Gabe reminisce about the origins of Lottie and talk about its evolution and challenges on the way. They discuss the impact and how Lottie is revolutionizing motion in design. Tune in to the podcast for the entire journey.

Issara is the founder of UX in Motion, an education platform that helps UX/UI & Product Designers learn and deploy UI animation fast. Issara has spent two decades working with high impact teams at Microsoft, HBO, T-Mobile, Facebook, Twitter, Xbox, MTV, Motorola, Target, Amazon, Nordstrom, UNAIDS, IDEO, and Artefact to name a few. His in-person and virtual workshops have been attended by thousands of UX/UI & Product designers from teams at Dropbox, Airbnb, Slack, Oracle, Salesforce, Kayak, MindBody, and many more.

On this episode, we discuss a range of topics including the benefits of specialization, the priority of UX, keeping up with new generations of users, and his predictions for the impact of Lottie on the future of motion. Check out Issara's FREE LottieFiles Icon Animation Course For UX/UI & Product Designers. 


01:28 - Origin Story_
02:58 - The Moment It All Changed
05: 23 - Competing Against Amazing Teenage Designers
08:37 - Specializing in Something That is Unique To You
11:33 - Motion as a tool to solve problems
14:52 - The priority of UX
18:09 - Motion + UX
22:16 - Too much motion or not enough
22:15 - Keeping up with Gen-Z
27:31 - Lotties in the wild
29:47 - The last 6yrs of Lottie
32:12 - Predictions for Lottie
34:35 - Free LottieFiles course on UX in Motion
36:10 - Coming Soon! A course on Design Systems for Motion
38:32 - Ethics in Design
42:37 - Guest Suggestions for The LottieFiles Podcast
43:35 - Reach out to Issara

Yarzar Zaw is a UI/UX design professional with a love for 2D and 3D animation. He is also an avid gamer and pokemon collector, whose work is influenced by the cartoons and entertainment he consumed as a kid and continues to collect to this day. We spoke about his journey to be the person he always wanted to be and how LottieFiles sparked his decision to get back his love for animation and 3D motion. If you're a designer, animator, or app developer in Myanmar, you definitely want to have Yarzar Zaw in your network. Produced by @edmundamoye


02:17 - A Toy Story
04:00 - Turning Constraints into Advantages
05:55 - Inflection Points
07:58 - Sparked by LottieFiles
09:14 - OnePay: Myanmar's Super App
10:14 - Discovering LottieFiles
11:30 - The Role of Animation in Mobile Apps
13:41 - Lottie Workflow and Collaboration b/w Designers, Devs, Animators, UX/UI Pros, Marketers, etc
15:17 - Mini-teardown of The OnePay Mobile App
19:31 - It Takes More Effort to be Minimal
21:31 - Lottie Connects People All over The World
25:03 - No More Questions because of Lottie
26:47 - Summaries and Predictions
30:25 - What's Next for Yarzar
31:35 - Advice for a Younger Yarzar
34:08 - Help Yarzar on his journey.
37:18 - Yarzar's Process

Sam Osborne is a full-stack developer and self-taught animator thanks to discovering Lottie animations. Sam now creates Lottie animations as well as helping out creating open-source libraries, tutorials and courses on using Lottie. Produced by @edmundamoye


2:03 - Sams Intro
03:20 - Origin Story
06:20 - Designer + Developer
07:31 - Teaching Makes You a Better Learner
08:50 - Upskilling and Giving Back Through Open Source
11:06 - The Developer POV - Lowering the Barrier of Entry to Animation
12:57 - Sam's Favorite Lotties
14:08 - Power to the Users
17:50 - Lots of Lotties
20:05 - Too Much of A Good Thing
21:49 - Sam's Top Secret Projects
23:31 - Lessons Learned
24:13 - Advice for Your Younger Self
25:48 - The Future of Lottie

Christian San Jose (CSJ) is a veteran UX expert, design leader, manager, and founder of agencies and technology startups. On this episode, we talked to CSJ about how technology, geography, and community experiences are impacting the way UX experts and designers deliver value and build engaging portfolios. We discussed the origins of the Graphika Conference; and learned about his big vision for the UX+ Conference and UX+ University (there's a Lottie on the page). Produced by @edmundamoye


01:16 - Guest Intro
03:17 - Why CSJ Teaches UX
04:38 - Building a Portfolio with Icons - Albert Pujols, Kobe Bryant, etc
07:28 - Quitting a Day Job to Being an Employer
08:49 - Conferences - Graphika, UX+
10:47 - UX, Motion, and NoCode
13:15 - Using New Mediums to Elevate What You Learn
17:36 - The Value of Motion and the Ooprtunities for UX and Design Communities
20:58 - UX+ Conference
24:59 - UX+ University

Product Designer Chethan stumbled across Lottie as it first started creeping onto the scene. With no one to show him the ropes, he had to learn through trial and error how to create working Lottie animations in After Effects. 

In this chat recorded back in April, Chethan talks to us about discovering Lottie, how he went about learning it, how the LottieFiles tools help him in his animation process, and his tips for designers thinking of getting into Lottie animating.

Tools Chethan uses:

• LottieFiles for After Effects
• LottieFiles for Figma
• Figma.AEUX


Chethan's Social:
• LottieFiles
• Dribbble
• Instagram
• YouTube
• Website