From the course: Prototyping Microinteractions with After Effects

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Creating a simple click/tap

Creating a simple click/tap

From the course: Prototyping Microinteractions with After Effects

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Creating a simple click/tap

Just keep in mind that even a simple micro-interaction, like a click or tap follows the trigger rules feedback structure of a micro-interaction. In this case, the trigger will be the button which is right here. And the rules will be what the button does and the feedback will be what the user sees which in this case will be the button changing color, and a dual tap which is right here appearing. The cursor also has rules. Okay, we're going to be using, this is the cursor. To show the tap, the feedback, the cursor will expand and contract. The rule will be how much of an expansion and, one final point to keep in mind is this, these things are fast and take place in less than a second. So, let's get started and to get yourself started, open the tap file found in your chapter download. And when it opens, open the tap comp in the project, First thing to do, select the cursor layer. And we're going to open the scale and position properties, so I'm just going to press the s key, hold down…

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