Yours isn’t a popular opinion in the UI world but I agree with you fully and there are a handful of interaction designers who question the dogma on animations.

Yours isn’t a popular opinion in the UI world but I agree with you fully and there are a handful of interaction designers who question the dogma on animations. I think animations is one of the places where a smart smartphone company could attack Apple on a UI basis... Apple is wedded to a rich multimedia UI. It’s so tightly connected to their brand they have no voice. But someone who came in with a low-media, animationless UI could best Apple on speed, General “UI mess”, and energy consumption. An interesting UI brand could be built around that.