--- title: Death to Scroll Fade! – Frontend Masters Blog | daily.dev description: A brief commentary agreeing with David Bushell's critique of the overused 'scroll fade' effect — where page elements animate into view as users scroll. The... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/death-to-scroll-fade-frontend-masters-blog-rqnknw2pf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Death to Scroll Fade! – Frontend Masters Blog | daily.dev og:description: A brief commentary agreeing with David Bushell's critique of the overused 'scroll fade' effect — where page elements animate into view as users scroll. The... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/death-to-scroll-fade-frontend-masters-blog-rqnknw2pf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/RQNknw2PF.png og:image:alt: Death to Scroll Fade! – Frontend Masters Blog og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Death to Scroll Fade! – Frontend Masters Blog **[Frontend Masters](https://daily.dev/sources/frontendmasters)** · 1 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A brief commentary agreeing with David Bushell's critique of the overused 'scroll fade' effect — where page elements animate into view as users scroll. The piece argues that while CSS has made such animations trivially easy to implement, the effect is often gratuitous movement with no UX benefit, and its ubiquity has made it more annoying than engaging. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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