Design engineering tip: show the first frame before motion content is ready

floguo · x · 2026-11-15

A design engineering tip from @0xnichy (retweeted by floguo): always show the first frame of visual content before the motion is ready, to avoid a janky loading experience. Concretely: use a poster image for videos until a playable frame exists, and render the initial state in HTML for JS compositions before React takes over.

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