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Design Spells @designspells.com · 29/08/2026

Voice orb animations in ChatGPT

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Design Spells @designspells.com · 29/08/2026

Delete confirmation animation in Things take time · By @chester.how

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Design Spells @designspells.com · 27/08/2026

Sidebar icon animation in Granola

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Design Spells @designspells.com · 26/08/2026

Animated transitions in Find My

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Design Spells @designspells.com · 13/08/2026

Skeuomorphic timer in Opal

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Design Spells @designspells.com · 12/08/2026

3D transition when navigating to a story from a different user on Instagram

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Design Spells @designspells.com · 09/08/2026

Fireworks appear if a perfect Lighthouse score is achieved on Chrome

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Design Spells @designspells.com · 07/08/2026

Transition animation when completing an activity on Strava

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Design Spells @designspells.com · 01/08/2026

Effort selection animations in Claude Code

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Hidden jumping minigame in GitHub Copilot's desktop app

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Design Spells @designspells.com · 20/06/2026

File upload animation in Dropbox

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Design Spells @designspells.com · 19/06/2026

Camera opens from the dynamic island in pico cam

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Design Spells @designspells.com · 14/06/2026

Pull-to-refresh animation in Snapchat

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Design Spells @designspells.com · 09/06/2026

World cup brackets visualization in Apple Sports

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Design Spells @designspells.com · 06/06/2026

Modal transitions and animations in Luma

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Design Spells @designspells.com · 04/06/2026

"Printing" animation when viewing your run in Run Receipt

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Design Spells @designspells.com · 30/05/2026

Activity status animation in Bevel

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Design Spells @designspells.com · 29/05/2026

Keyboard shortcut tutorial in Perplexity's onboarding

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Design Spells @designspells.com · 22/05/2026

Pull-to-refresh animation in Claude

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Design Spells @designspells.com · 21/05/2026

Typing "awesome" in YouTube turns the progress bar into a flashing rainbow of colors

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Design Spells @designspells.com · 16/05/2026

Animation when revealing spoiler content in Threads

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Design Spells @designspells.com · 14/05/2026

Animated launch screen when opening Sudoku a Day

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Design Spells @designspells.com · 09/05/2026

Tap to cycle through available icon styles in Ghostty

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Design Spells @designspells.com · 08/05/2026

Swipe up to enter in Wabi's onboarding

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Design Spells @designspells.com · 28/04/2026

Godzilla appears if you tap "Home" enough times in Discord

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Design Spells @designspells.com · 24/04/2026

Progress indicator animation in Linear

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Design Spells @designspells.com · 21/04/2026

Message Invaders minigame in Customer.io

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"Tear" off your boarding pass stub in FocusFlight

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Design Spells @designspells.com · 10/04/2026

Animation when searching by image in Pinterest

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