Blog

Notes on motion, performance, and craft

Deep dives, release notes, and the occasional strong opinion from the team building Aether.

How we scrub 120 frames at 60fps on a phone

A look under the hood of the frame engine — preloading, device-pixel-ratio math, and why we never put scroll values in React state.

The case for restraint in scroll-driven design, and how to choose your hero beat.

Why physics-based motion feels alive and how we tune stiffness and damping.

Primitive, semantic, component — the three layers that let you reskin in an afternoon.

How to honor prefers-reduced-motion and still deliver a premium experience.

Patterns, surprises, and the metrics that actually moved after launch.

Keeping design and code in lockstep, one mapped component at a time.