Over the past 10 years, motion has become an essential layer of interface design. It is often the difference between a good and great User Interface (UI). Its rise in importance can be attributed to the dawn of the smartphone, touch-screen era. The direct success to this idea is that it offers a way to manipulate content and brings a physicality to design. Interact with a website that doesn’t meet our understanding of how it should work, and it breaks a users flow. This is why it is important to bring consistency to an interface.
For this reason, designers/developers follow Google’s, ‘material design’ methodology which sets out principles for consistency in style, branding, interaction and motion. The motion section is very in-depth with plenty of examples. In the e-learning world, many users have to deal with Learning Management Systems (LMS) at their workplace, whose interfaces are often not making use of great motion and design.