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Have always been going off matt perry's advice around motion with framer about opacity and color should be linear transition, but was looking through some of the dropdown component examples on this post https://performance.dev/wealthsimple-year-one and while they're bouncier than we want, the opacity animation (separate from the transform anim which adds the bounciness) uses an ease-out on enter and it just felt nice and snappy. tried it out here, and now the old stuff feels sluggish even tho they enter at the same speed.

Anyway cross compare and let me know if you feel the same. this just updates the opacity ease on elements and adds some more richness to the timing selection process in the skill

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Opacity enters on `--cl-ease-enter` and leaves on `--cl-ease-exit` across the
Popover, Select, Menu, Combobox and Dialog popups, replacing `linear`. The
Dialog's backdrop scrims stay linear.

Menu and Combobox popups move off their hardcoded `150ms`/`ease-out` onto the
duration and easing tokens the other popups use, and reduced motion now drops
the scale rather than the whole transition. Menu items swap their background
instantly on hover, matching Select.

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Mosaic motion guidance now defines an enter easing token and clarifies entrance, exit, and persistent-state timing. Combobox and menu popups use shared duration and easing tokens with reduced-motion scale suppression. Dialog, popover, and select transitions use enter and exit easing tokens instead of linear timing. An empty Changeset frontmatter block was added.

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Several Mosaic components use a different opacity easing curve from the documented token contract, causing inconsistent entrance animations; align them before merging.

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@maxyinger maxyinger changed the title refactor(ui): ease Mosaic popup fades and align menu/combobox motion refactor(ui): Update opacity entrance easing and animation skill cleanup Sep 16, 2026
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In @.claude/skills/mosaic/references/motion.md:
- Line 30: Correct the overshoot example in the motion documentation to
calculate it as about 2% of the animated delta: for a scale from 0.96 to 1,
state approximately 0.08% of the dialog width rather than tens of pixels. Keep
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In `@packages/ui/src/mosaic/components/combobox/combobox.styles.ts`:
- Around line 30-31: Shorten the reduced-motion comment near the combobox styles
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// Reduced motion drops the scale VALUE as well as its transition: left in, it would
// apply instantly and snap the popup out of 96% on the way out.

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Keep new code comments to one terse line.

Both comments explain non-obvious behavior, but both exceed the repository limit for warranted comments.

  • packages/ui/src/mosaic/components/combobox/combobox.styles.ts#L30-L31: replace the two-line reduced-motion explanation with one terse line.
  • packages/ui/src/mosaic/components/popover/popover.styles.ts#L76-L79: replace the four-line timing explanation with one terse line.

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Reduce this code comment to one terse rationale.

The comment restates the scale behavior and spans two lines. Keep only the non-obvious reason for retaining scale: 1 under reduced motion.

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🟡 Minor · Document opacity easing by phase. · motion.md:48-50

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Document opacity easing by phase.

--cl-ease-enter is not an unconditional opacity rule. Popup surfaces use it on arrival and --cl-ease-exit on [data-ending-style]; backdropMotion intentionally keeps opacity linear. Update .claude/skills/mosaic/references/motion.md and the easing comments in packages/ui/src/mosaic/tokens.stylex.ts to state these rules instead of claiming that opacity always uses --cl-ease-enter.

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tokens.stylex.ts: specify --cl-ease-enter for popup arrival, --cl-ease-exit for
popup elements marked [data-ending-style], and linear opacity for
backdropMotion, removing the claim that opacity always uses --cl-ease-enter.
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In @.claude/skills/mosaic/references/motion.md:
- Around line 48-50: Update the opacity easing documentation in motion.md and
the related easing comments in tokens.stylex.ts: specify --cl-ease-enter for
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🟡 Minor · Use one opacity easing contract. · motion.md:48-50

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use one opacity easing contract. tokens.stylex.ts and stylex.md require linear for opacity, but motion.md requires --cl-ease-enter. The changed dialog, popover, select, combobox, and menu transitions place --cl-ease-enter in the opacity slot, while other opacity-only transitions use linear. Set those opacity slots to linear, keep the existing geometry easing for transform, translate, and scale, and update motion.md to match.

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In @.claude/skills/mosaic/references/motion.md around lines 48 - 50, Standardize
opacity easing on linear across the affected dialog, popover, select, combobox,
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