Write for Motion Magazine

With Motion Magazine, we're building a publication about web animation. Not just Motion - the whole craft. So if you've got something you want to say about animation on the web, we want to hear it.

What we're looking for

Motion started life as an animation library, but its mission has always been to make building delightful UIs accessible to everyone. Motion Magazine is a natural extension of that mission and its content should be in service of it.

We're open to all suggestions, but generally we're looking for:

Technical breakdowns

Reverse-engineer an impressive website, animation or interaction. How did Cursor make that scroll effect? How would you rebuild it with Motion or CSS?

Your experience

You spent three days tracking down a performance issue with a transform animation. You hacked the View Transitions API to do something novel. You just made something cool. Write about it!

Opinions

You have opinions, we want to share them. Even opinions that aren't overtly pro-Motion ("CSS transitions are enough for 90% of use-cases!" or pro-animation in general ("animations are usually distracting") - if you've got evidence then it would make a great article.

What we don't want

• Puff-pieces

• Been-there done-that tutorials

• AI slop

Who reads Motion Magazine

Developers and designers who care about the user experience. A mix between indie through to enterprise. Beginner to expert.

Writing tips

Write to the top of your intelligence while keeping things clear and accessible.

Include examples! CodePen and CodeSandbox examples can be embedded in the site and animations should be shown as well as told.

Payment

Every published piece receives $200 via PayPal or invoice.

Pitch

Send an outline to matt at motion.dev or hit us up on X/Twitter. Include:

• Proposed title

• Outline (2-3 sentences)

• Why you're the right person to write about this

If we're interested, we'll respond quickly, but we can't respond to every submission.