Motion Design in 2025: What Brands Are Getting Wrong

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There’s a motion design explosion happening right now. Every website has micro-animations. Every brand presentation has kinetic type. Every social feed is full of motion graphics. Most of it is bad.

The issue isn’t that brands are using motion — it’s that they’re using it without purpose. Motion should do a job: direct attention, communicate hierarchy, express personality, or reinforce a message. When it doesn’t serve one of these functions, it’s just clutter…