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Daily drop #6

Daily drop #6

Daily drop #6

TUTORIAL

How to recreate the Zapier product preview
Zapier's website is a gem full of nice micro interactions. Let's dive in and see how
we can recreate the little timeline previews solely within Framer, without any code.

TUTORIAL

How to recreate the Zapier product preview
Zapier's website is a gem full of nice micro interactions. Let's dive in and see how we can recreate the little timeline previews solely within Framer, without any code.

TUTORIAL

How to recreate the Zapier product preview
Zapier's website is a gem full of nice micro interactions. Let's dive in and see how we can recreate the little timeline previews solely within Framer, without any code.

#1 - What are we building?

Let's begin with our end goal in mind. Visit zapier.com to see their website, full of delightful interactions. But for simplicity, here's a video illustrating what we're building.

#2 - Setting up your component

Let's build the foundation of the website and create a component for the entire right side.

As you can see, there are already a few variations, but we'll cover that in the next video.

#3 - Create the different states

Create each animation state one-by-one, hiding everything on the Primary variant. Then, move through every other variation and set the opacity to 100% for each new component. Be sure to add an empty variant at the end again.

For the first '15 new tasks', I designed two variations. This is necessary to achieve the Zoom effect and move it upward.

#4 - Add your interactions

Congrats on completing all the building variants! Now, let's move on to adding interactions.


In fact, there is a neat trick to automatically change between variants. Simply set the mode to "Appear", and you'll be able to quickly jump through them.

#5 -Set timing correctly

Most variants have a timing of 0.8, except for the one just before the JIRA task pops up, which has a timing of 0.1. This tweak helps to ensure a smooth transition in the opening shot.

#6 -There it is

6. It's as simple as that! You'll have a beautiful timeline video right on your canvas, without any need for video files or code.

👋 I hope you've enjoyed today's drop.