AI SummaryThe animate booster helps developers enhance UI features with purposeful animations and micro-interactions that improve usability and user delight. It's ideal for product engineers and designers working in Cursor who want to add polish and feedback mechanisms to their interfaces.
Install
Copy this and paste it into Claude Code, Cursor, or any AI assistant:
I want to install the "animate" skill in my project. Please run this command in my terminal: # Install skill into your project mkdir -p .claude/skills/animate && curl --retry 3 --retry-delay 2 --retry-all-errors -o .claude/skills/animate/SKILL.md "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pbakaus/impeccable/main/.claude/skills/animate/SKILL.md" Then restart Claude Code (or reload the window in Cursor) so the skill is picked up.
Description
Review a feature and enhance it with purposeful animations, micro-interactions, and motion effects that improve usability and delight.
Context Gathering (Do This First)
You cannot do a great job without having necessary context, such as target audience (critical), desired use-cases (critical), brand personality/tone (playful vs serious, energetic vs calm), and performance constraints. Attempt to gather these from the current thread or codebase. • If you don't find exact information and have to infer from existing design and functionality, you MUST STOP and STOP and call the AskUserQuestionTool to clarify. whether you got it right. • Otherwise, if you can't fully infer or your level of confidence is medium or lower, you MUST STOP and call the AskUserQuestionTool to clarify. clarifying questions first to complete your context. Do NOT proceed until you have answers. Guessing leads to inappropriate or excessive animation.
Use frontend-design skill
Use the frontend-design skill for design principles and anti-patterns. Do NOT proceed until it has executed and you know all DO's and DON'Ts. ---
Assess Animation Opportunities
Analyze where motion would improve the experience: • Identify static areas: • Missing feedback: Actions without visual acknowledgment (button clicks, form submission, etc.) • Jarring transitions: Instant state changes that feel abrupt (show/hide, page loads, route changes) • Unclear relationships: Spatial or hierarchical relationships that aren't obvious • Lack of delight: Functional but joyless interactions • Missed guidance: Opportunities to direct attention or explain behavior • Understand the context: • What's the personality? (Playful vs serious, energetic vs calm) • What's the performance budget? (Mobile-first? Complex page?) • Who's the audience? (Motion-sensitive users? Power users who want speed?) • What matters most? (One hero animation vs many micro-interactions?) If any of these are unclear from the codebase, STOP and call the AskUserQuestionTool to clarify. CRITICAL: Respect prefers-reduced-motion. Always provide non-animated alternatives for users who need them.
Plan Animation Strategy
Create a purposeful animation plan: • Hero moment: What's the ONE signature animation? (Page load? Hero section? Key interaction?) • Feedback layer: Which interactions need acknowledgment? • Transition layer: Which state changes need smoothing? • Delight layer: Where can we surprise and delight? IMPORTANT: One well-orchestrated experience beats scattered animations everywhere. Focus on high-impact moments.
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