[shogun21]

How do you feel about the animations used in material design?

Animations for the sake of having animation is really distracting. But if used subtly and with purpose, they could help enhance the user experience.

[BFay]

Since I'm aware of material design, I find myself constantly looking for the animations and trying to evaluate how they work on me, which kind of defeats the purpose. I keep seeing those circles everywhere!

I think it's the right direction, though; animating to subtly direct user attention to the right place.

[zecho]

Animation for the sake of animation is sometimes called "art." I'm fine with that.