What problems is LottieFiles solving and how is that benefiting you?
LottieFiles solves one of the biggest challenges in modern digital design and product development: creating high quality, lightweight, and customizable animations without heavy effort, high costs, or complex workflows. Earlier, adding animations to an app or website required a lot of manual work, coordination with motion designers, repeated revisions, and high charges. With LottieFiles, this entire process has become simple, fast, and accessible. As a designer, I have been using LottieFiles for around four years, mainly along with Figma, and it has completely changed the way I design UI and UX for apps and digital products. Whether I am working on a grocery app, an e-commerce app, or any other mobile or web-based product, LottieFiles makes it very easy to find clean, modern, and professional animation assets. From animated icons to buttons, loaders, onboarding animations, and micro-interactions, everything is available in one place. One of the biggest problems LottieFiles solves is time consumption. Earlier, to create similar animations, designers had to either animate everything from scratch or outsource the work, which used to take days or even weeks. It also involved higher costs and multiple revisions. With LottieFiles, I can easily browse animations, preview them in real time, and integrate them directly into my design workflow. This saves a huge amount of time and allows me to focus more on usability, layout, and overall product experience.
Another major benefit is customization. The best feature of LottieFiles, in my experience, is color customization. Almost every animation, icon, button, or loader allows color changes according to the brand or app theme. This is extremely useful because branding consistency is very important in app design. Earlier, even small color changes in animations required reworking the entire file, but now it can be done instantly. This flexibility makes LottieFiles stand out compared to many other animation platforms. LottieFiles also solves the problem of heavy file sizes. Traditional GIFs or video-based animations often increase app or website load time, which negatively affects performance and user experience. Lottie animations are lightweight, smooth, and performance-friendly. This is especially helpful when designing apps where speed and responsiveness matter a lot. Because of this, developers are also more comfortable implementing these animations without worrying about performance issues.
Integration is another strong area where LottieFiles benefits me greatly. Its deep integration with Figma is one of the main reasons I use it so often. I can directly use Lottie animations inside Figma while designing interfaces, which makes prototyping more interactive and realistic. Clients and stakeholders can clearly visualiz how the final product will feel, instead of imagining static screens. This improves communication, reduces confusion, and speeds up approval processes.Recently, I also used LottieFiles with Canva for video editing and content creation. A few months ago, while working on a video project, I noticed that LottieFiles is integrated into Canva as well. This made it very easy to add animated icons and elements into videos. These animations added a completely different and more professional feel to the videos compared to normal static icons. This shows how versatile LottieFiles is not just limited to app design, but also useful for video editing, presentations, and marketing content. Another problem LottieFiles solves is accessibility to quality motion design. Not every designer is a motion expert, and learning animation tools can take a lot of time. LottieFiles bridges this gap by providing ready to usee animations that look clean, modern, and professional. This allows designers like me to deliver high-quality results even without deep motion design expertise. It also helps small teams, freelancers, and startups who may not have the budget to hire dedicated motion designers.
From a consistency point of view, LottieFiles helps maintain a neat and clean visual language across projects. Having icons, buttons, and animations from the same platform ensures that the overall design feels cohesive. This is very important in UI/UX design, where small inconsistencies can reduce the quality of the final product. With LottieFiles, I can easily maintain uniform animation styles across multiple screens and features. Over the years, LottieFiles has also helped me improve my workflow efficiency. Instead of switching between multiple tools or resources, I can rely on one platform for most animation needs. This reduces mental load and makes the design process smoother. The preview options, community resources, and variety of assets make it easy to experiment and choose the right animation for the right use case.
That said, while LottieFiles solves many problems and provides great value, pricing has become a concern recently. Earlier, many useful features and animations were available for free, which made the platform even more accessible. Now, in 2025, a large portion of the content has moved behind premium plans, and the pricing feels relatively high, especially for individual designers or freelancers. A more flexible or affordable pricing structure would make the platform even better and more comfortable to use long-term. Overall, LottieFiles has benefited me by saving time, reducing costs, improving design quality, and making animation accessible and customizable. It allows me to deliver better app designs, create engaging user experiences, and add life to interfaces without unnecessary complexity. Despite the pricing concerns, it remains one of the best platforms for animation assets, especially when used with tools like Figma and Canva. If pricing becomes more balanced in the future, LottieFiles would be close to a perfect solution for designers and creators. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
