Icons That Move with Purpose, Not Just for Show
Custom Rive animated icons with state machine transitions for navigation, actions, and status indicators that make your interface feel alive and responsive.
Animated interface elements like icons increase user engagement by 15-25%
UX Collective
Animated Icon Design
What's Included
Everything you get with our Animated Icon Design
Custom Animated Icon Set
Rive-native animated icons with state machine transitions for hover, active, disabled, success, and error states
Motion Design System
Consistent animation curves, timing values, and transition patterns documented for your design team to extend
Developer Integration Package
Rive files with documented state machine inputs, named triggers, and platform-specific integration code samples
Our Animated Icon Design Process
Icon Audit & Planning
We review your current icon set, identify icons that benefit most from animation, and define the states and transitions each animated icon needs to support.
Motion Design
We design animation curves, timing, and transitions for each icon, ensuring consistency across the set. You review motion prototypes before we build the final Rive files.
Rive Build
We build each icon in Rive with clean state machines, named inputs for developer control, and optimized file sizes. Each icon is self-contained and ready for integration.
Delivery & Integration Support
We deliver Rive files with documentation of state machine inputs and sample integration code for your platform. We support your engineering team through the implementation process.
Key Benefits
Expressive state transitions
Icons smoothly animate between states: hamburger to close, play to pause, empty to filled, success to error. Each transition communicates what is happening in your interface, reducing cognitive load and making interactions feel natural and predictable.
Consistent visual language
We design icon sets with consistent stroke weights, animation timing, and motion curves. Your entire icon library moves with the same personality and rhythm, creating a cohesive visual language that reinforces your brand across every screen.
Minimal performance impact
Rive animated icons are typically 2-5KB each, smaller than most static SVGs with animation code. They render on GPU at 60fps and load instantly. You can animate every icon in your interface without any measurable impact on page performance.
Research & Evidence
Backed by industry research and proven results
Micro-Interaction Engagement
Micro-interactions including animated icons increase user engagement by 15-25%
UX Collective (2022)
Rive File Size Advantage
Rive animations are 10x smaller than GIFs and 5x smaller than Lottie for equivalent animations
Rive/Airbnb (2023)
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