everything-claude-code/skills/motion_ui/skill.md

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name: motion-ui
description: "Production-ready UI motion system for React/Next.js. Use when implementing animations, transitions, or motion patterns."
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# Motion System v4.1

Production-ready UI motion system for React / Next.js.

Focused on **performance, accessibility, and usability** — not decoration.

**by Jatan**

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## When to Use

Use this motion system when motion:

- Guides attention (onboarding, primary actions)
- Communicates state (loading, success, error, transitions)
- Preserves spatial continuity (navigation, layout changes)

### Appropriate Scenarios

- Interactive UI (buttons, modals, menus)
- State transitions (open/close, loading states)
- Navigation transitions and shared elements

### Considerations

- Accessibility must be preserved (reduced motion support)
- Low-end device performance must be respected
- Prefer responsiveness over visual smoothness

### Avoid Motion When

- It is purely decorative
- It reduces clarity or usability
- It impacts performance

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## Core Principle

Motion must:

- Guide attention
- Communicate state
- Preserve spatial continuity

If it does none → remove it.

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## Installation

```bash
npm install motion

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Versions

• motion/react → default
• framer-motion → legacy (do not mix)

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Motion Tokens

export const motionTokens = {
  duration: {
    fast: 0.18,
    normal: 0.35,
    slow: 0.6
  },
  easing: {
    smooth: [0.22, 1, 0.36, 1],
    sharp: [0.4, 0, 0.2, 1]
  },
  distance: {
    sm: 8,
    md: 16,
    lg: 24
  }
}

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Performance Rules

Safe Properties

• transform
• opacity

Avoid

• width
• height
• top
• left

Rule: responsiveness > smoothness

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Device Adaptation

const isLowEnd =
  typeof navigator !== "undefined" &&
  navigator.hardwareConcurrency <= 4

const duration = isLowEnd ? 0.2 : 0.4

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Accessibility

Reduced Motion (React)

import { motion, useReducedMotion } from "motion/react"

const reduce = useReducedMotion()

export function Example() {
  return (
    <motion.div
      initial={{ opacity: 0, y: reduce ? 0 : 24 }}
      animate={{ opacity: 1, y: 0 }}
    />
  )
}

CSS

@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
  .motion-safe-transition {
    transition: opacity 0.2s;
  }

  .motion-reduce-transform {
    transform: none !important;
  }
}

Tailwind

<div class="motion-safe:animate-fade motion-reduce:opacity-100"></div>

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Core Patterns

• hover → whileHover
• tap → whileTap
• in-view → whileInView
• scroll → useScroll
• conditional → AnimatePresence
• small layout → layout
• large layout → avoid
• complex → useAnimate

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Layout System

• layoutId → shared transitions
• AnimatePresence → mount/unmount transitions

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Advanced Patterns

• Parallax scrolling
• Scroll storytelling sections
• 3D pointer tilt
• Crossfade transitions
• Clip-path reveals
• Skeleton loading loops
• Micro-interactions
• Spring physics motion

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Modal System (Production Safe)

import { useEffect, useRef, useState } from "react"
import { motion, AnimatePresence } from "motion/react"

type ModalProps = {
  open: boolean
  onClose: () => void
}

function useFocusTrap(ref: React.RefObject<HTMLElement>, active: boolean) {
  useEffect(() => {
    if (!active || !ref.current) return

    const el = ref.current

    const focusable = el.querySelectorAll<HTMLElement>(
      'button, [href], input, select, textarea, [tabindex]:not([tabindex="-1"])'
    )

    const first = focusable[0]
    const last = focusable[focusable.length - 1]

    if (first) first.focus()

    const handleKey = (e: KeyboardEvent) => {
      if (e.key !== "Tab") return
      if (!first || !last) return

      if (e.shiftKey && document.activeElement === first) {
        e.preventDefault()
        last.focus()
      } else if (!e.shiftKey && document.activeElement === last) {
        e.preventDefault()
        first.focus()
      }
    }

    el.addEventListener("keydown", handleKey)
    return () => el.removeEventListener("keydown", handleKey)
  }, [active, ref])
}

function useScrollLock(active: boolean) {
  useEffect(() => {
    if (!active) return

    const prev = document.body.style.overflow
    document.body.style.overflow = "hidden"

    return () => {
      document.body.style.overflow = prev
    }
  }, [active])
}

export function Modal({ open, onClose }: ModalProps) {
  const ref = useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null)

  useFocusTrap(ref, open)
  useScrollLock(open)

  useEffect(() => {
    const onKeyDown = (e: KeyboardEvent) => {
      if (e.key === "Escape") onClose()
    }

    if (open) window.addEventListener("keydown", onKeyDown)

    return () => window.removeEventListener("keydown", onKeyDown)
  }, [open, onClose])

  return (
    <AnimatePresence>
      {open && (
        <motion.div
          role="dialog"
          aria-modal="true"
          aria-label="Modal"
          initial={{ opacity: 0 }}
          animate={{ opacity: 1 }}
          exit={{ opacity: 0 }}
          className="fixed inset-0 flex items-center justify-center bg-black/40"
        >
          <motion.div
            ref={ref}
            initial={{ scale: 0.95, opacity: 0 }}
            animate={{ scale: 1, opacity: 1 }}
            exit={{ scale: 0.95, opacity: 0 }}
            className="bg-white p-6 rounded"
          >
            <button onClick={onClose}>Close</button>
          </motion.div>
        </motion.div>
      )}
    </AnimatePresence>
  )
}

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Scroll Parallax

import { useScroll, useTransform, motion } from "motion/react"

export function Parallax() {
  const { scrollYProgress } = useScroll()
  const y = useTransform(scrollYProgress, [0, 1], [0, -80])

  return <motion.div style={{ y }} />
}

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Skeleton Loading

import { motion } from "motion/react"

export function Skeleton() {
  return (
    <motion.div
      className="bg-gray-200 h-6 w-full"
      animate={{ opacity: [0.5, 1, 0.5] }}
      transition={{ repeat: Infinity, duration: 1.2 }}
    />
  )
}

---

Shared Layout

import { motion } from "motion/react"

export function Shared() {
  return <motion.div layoutId="shared" />
}

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Stagger List

import { motion } from "motion/react"

const container = {
  hidden: {},
  visible: {
    transition: { staggerChildren: 0.08 }
  }
}

const item = {
  hidden: { opacity: 0, y: 10 },
  visible: { opacity: 1, y: 0 }
}

export function List() {
  return (
    <motion.ul variants={container} initial="hidden" animate="visible">
      {[1, 2, 3].map(i => (
        <motion.li key={i} variants={item}>
          Item {i}
        </motion.li>
      ))}
    </motion.ul>
  )
}

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Debug Checklist

• correct import (motion/react)
• "use client" in Next.js
• no missing keys
• no layout shift (CLS)
• no hydration mismatch
• reduced motion works
• keyboard navigation works

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Anti-Patterns

• animating layout (width/height)
• decorative motion
• infinite motion without purpose
• ignoring reduced motion
• over-staggering lists

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Philosophy

Motion is interaction design.

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Final Rule

If motion does not improve UX → remove it.