The article organizes animation patterns into categories—appearance, coordination, transforms, transitions, scrolling, interaction, easing, physics, loops, details, performance, and guiding principles—and defines each one. It’s a quick reference for naming and specifying UI animations when prompting AI or writing design documentation.

• Naming animation patterns precisely lets you communicate exact intent to an AI instead of vague descriptions
• The article functions as a reference glossary spanning appearance, motion, scroll, interaction, easing, physics, loops, and micro-detail effects
• Performance is a hard constraint: animations need 60fps baseline (120fps on fast screens) and must avoid jank from dropped frames