Someone here mentioned the existence of the "reduce animations" setting on Android and I decided to try it.
After having used it for a week or two my conclusion is that oh wow, I had no idea just how exhausting all these fancy animations actually are. Not having everything zoom, swoosh and fly around and just place themselves in their expected locations feels so much less stressful.
I wonder if there are any papers written on the mental effects of excessive animations.
And I do agree that those animations are neat, and as an old demo programmer, I love their design, but they really are giving me a kind of mental fatigue.
