Fun with Staggered Transitions - Cloud Four

I was prototyping a sliding view transition between nested levels of navigation:

While this sort of transition had worked well for past projects, it didn’t feel quite right for this one. I wanted it to have a little more personality, to feel like it was organically reacting to the item you selected.

I thought it might be cool to stagger the animation, so the selected item began moving first, with its siblings following as if tethered together: