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Remove Animations

The opposite of finding opportunities: removes the animations your app doesn’t need.

Updated October 28, 2026

What it does

  • Looks for motion on keyboard actions, high-frequency surfaces, functional data, and pure decoration
  • Removes or shortens the ones that don’t make sense
  • Lists what it kept and why, so that you know why it’s still there

When to use it

When you want to audit your app or a feature for unnecessary animations. You can add motion to literally anything these days at almost no extra cost, it’s tempting. This skill ensures you are not just adding motion for the sake of it.

It provides restraint that you may not have otherwise.

What the skill changed

Pressing ↓ four times in a list. Without the skill, the highlight eases to each row over 300ms, so it trails behind the keys. With it, the motion on a keyboard action is gone, and the highlight feels connected to the user’s actions.

Example prompts

You don’t need special wording. Describe the problem the way you’d describe it to a teammate. Here are some more to try on your own product.

The course behind these skills

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