Zapier Motion System

Clarity at Work

Our Role

Motion Principles, Motion Guidelines

Collaborators

Steve Haslip, Zander Abranowicz, Zapier team

Effortless Integration for every user

Crafting consistency in motion

Animating clarity in every step

Effortless Integration for every user. Zapier provides unparalleled workflow automation, connecting a vast array of over 6000 applications, enabling users to automate repetitive tasks like lead management and streamline their work processes.

Crafting consistency in motion. As a company that helps work flow, Zapier wanted to be a brand in motion. First, though, it needed a motion strategy and system to ensure consistency in motion—a guide for how its logo, color palettes, and type should move, when.

Animating clarity in every step. At the heart of Zapier's motion system is clarity. Because that's what Zapier ultimately provides its users: the space to think and act clearly while a computer handles your most energy and time-consuming grunt work.

Clear the Way

Zapier’s first motion ideal focuses on educating and onboarding users, emphasizing how automation works through active, linear, directional sequencing. It simplifies complex operations into incremental steps, using UI elements as guides.

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Clear the Desk

This motion ideal illustrates the exponential benefits of automation, transforming user inputs into self-sufficient automations. By demonstrating synchronization between apps and tasks, it highlights the seamless and automated nature of Zapier’s platform, making every workday a fresh start.

Clear the Mind

Emphasizing the aspirational aspects of automation, this ideal shows how Zapier helps in decluttering tasks and notifications, focusing on the newfound time and energy people enjoy with Zapier on their team. It employs gentle animations and subdued colors to communicate the serene state of being brought about by effective automation.

Humanizing User Interface

Zapier’s motion principles also include UI elements that leverage elasticity and anticipation, creating more approachable and humanizing digital expressions. These principles extend to text animations, offset motions, and match cuts, ensuring that every element in motion feels friendly and controlled.

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