#1 - Making Figma for LottieFiles with Karam

Nattu and Gabe reminisce about the origins of Lottie and talk about its evolution and challenges on the way. They discuss the impact and how Lottie is revolutionizing motion in design. Tune in to the podcast for the entire journey.

Issara is the founder of UX in Motion, an education platform that helps UX/UI & Product Designers learn and deploy UI animation fast. Issara has spent two decades working with high impact teams at Microsoft, HBO, T-Mobile, Facebook, Twitter, Xbox, MTV, Motorola, Target, Amazon, Nordstrom, UNAIDS, IDEO, and Artefact to name a few. His in-person and virtual workshops have been attended by thousands of UX/UI & Product designers from teams at Dropbox, Airbnb, Slack, Oracle, Salesforce, Kayak, MindBody, and many more. On this episode, we discuss a range of topics including the benefits of specialization, the priority of UX, keeping up with new generations of users, and his predictions for the impact of Lottie on the future of motion. Check out Issara's FREE LottieFiles Icon Animation Course For UX/UI & Product Designers.  01:28 - Origin Story_ 02:58 - The Moment It All Changed 05: 23 - Competing Against Amazing Teenage Designers 08:37 - Specializing in Something That is Unique To You 11:33 - Motion as a tool to solve problems 14:52 - The priority of UX 18:09 - Motion + UX 22:16 - Too much motion or not enough 22:15 - Keeping up with Gen-Z 27:31 - Lotties in the wild 29:47 - The last 6yrs of Lottie 32:12 - Predictions for Lottie 34:35 - Free LottieFiles course on UX in Motion 36:10 - Coming Soon! A course on Design Systems for Motion 38:32 - Ethics in Design 42:37 - Guest Suggestions for The LottieFiles Podcast 43:35 - Reach out to Issara

Yarzar Zaw is a UI/UX design professional with a love for 2D and 3D animation. He is also an avid gamer and pokemon collector, whose work is influenced by the cartoons and entertainment he consumed as a kid and continues to collect to this day. We spoke about his journey to be the person he always wanted to be and how LottieFiles sparked his decision to get back his love for animation and 3D motion. If you're a designer, animator, or app developer in Myanmar, you definitely want to have Yarzar Zaw in your network. Produced by @edmundamoye 02:17 - A Toy Story 04:00 - Turning Constraints into Advantages 05:55 - Inflection Points 07:58 - Sparked by LottieFiles 09:14 - OnePay: Myanmar's Super App 10:14 - Discovering LottieFiles 11:30 - The Role of Animation in Mobile Apps 13:41 - Lottie Workflow and Collaboration b/w Designers, Devs, Animators, UX/UI Pros, Marketers, etc 15:17 - Mini-teardown of The OnePay Mobile App 19:31 - It Takes More Effort to be Minimal 21:31 - Lottie Connects People All over The World 25:03 - No More Questions because of Lottie 26:47 - Summaries and Predictions 30:25 - What's Next for Yarzar 31:35 - Advice for a Younger Yarzar 34:08 - Help Yarzar on his journey. 37:18 - Yarzar's Process

Sam Osborne is a full-stack developer and self-taught animator thanks to discovering Lottie animations. Sam now creates Lottie animations as well as helping out creating open-source libraries, tutorials and courses on using Lottie. Produced by @edmundamoye 2:03 - Sams Intro 03:20 - Origin Story 06:20 - Designer + Developer 07:31 - Teaching Makes You a Better Learner 08:50 - Upskilling and Giving Back Through Open Source 11:06 - The Developer POV - Lowering the Barrier of Entry to Animation 12:57 - Sam's Favorite Lotties 14:08 - Power to the Users 17:50 - Lots of Lotties 20:05 - Too Much of A Good Thing 21:49 - Sam's Top Secret Projects 23:31 - Lessons Learned 24:13 - Advice for Your Younger Self 25:48 - The Future of Lottie

Christian San Jose (CSJ) is a veteran UX expert, design leader, manager, and founder of agencies and technology startups. On this episode, we talked to CSJ about how technology, geography, and community experiences are impacting the way UX experts and designers deliver value and build engaging portfolios. We discussed the origins of the Graphika Conference; and learned about his big vision for the UX+ Conference and UX+ University (there's a Lottie on the page). Produced by @edmundamoye 01:16 - Guest Intro 03:17 - Why CSJ Teaches UX 04:38 - Building a Portfolio with Icons - Albert Pujols, Kobe Bryant, etc 07:28 - Quitting a Day Job to Being an Employer 08:49 - Conferences - Graphika, UX+ 10:47 - UX, Motion, and NoCode 13:15 - Using New Mediums to Elevate What You Learn 17:36 - The Value of Motion and the Ooprtunities for UX and Design Communities 20:58 - UX+ Conference 24:59 - UX+ University

Product Designer Chethan stumbled across Lottie as it first started creeping onto the scene. With no one to show him the ropes, he had to learn through trial and error how to create working Lottie animations in After Effects.  In this chat recorded back in April, Chethan talks to us about discovering Lottie, how he went about learning it, how the LottieFiles tools help him in his animation process, and his tips for designers thinking of getting into Lottie animating. Tools Chethan uses: • LottieFiles for After Effects • LottieFiles for Figma • Figma.AEUX Chethan's Social: • LottieFiles • Dribbble • Instagram • YouTube • Website

Swiggy Product designer Saptarshi Prakash joins us on the LottieFiles podcast to talk about how Lottie animations are used in Swiggy's product design to bring things to life.

In this episode we sit down with Nattu Adnan, one of the founders of LottieFiles, to talk about how Lottie and LottieFiles came to be.   As mentioned in the podcast, this is the page that explains the history of Lottie 👉 What is Lottie?  

Karam chats to us about the incredibly well received LottieFiles for Figma plugin. In our very first attempt at a podcast, we chat with its developer and visit the how and why this plugin came about. Install it here Due to the limitations we are facing as we all working from our own homes and with our recording equipment trapped in the office, we did this over a call so please excuse if the audio is not ideal. We worked within our means :)