My new course called aiforui.dev is in early access!

Emil KowalskiDesign Engineer

AI Skills for Design Engineers

For designers and engineers to help them build better user interfaces.

npx skills add emilkowalski/skill

This skill file is just the tip of the iceberg. My new course, aiforui.dev, teaches you how to use AI to build better user interfaces and comes with a much more thorough set of skills:

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Available Skills

  • emil-design-eng - The main skill that consists of mostly animation, but also some design advice.
  • animate - Builds an animation from scratch while choosing the correct curve, duration, properties, and so on.
  • animate-expo - The same bar, for React Native and Expo: gestures, sheets, haptics, screen transitions, and keeping motion off the JS thread.
  • review-animations - Review your animations in a strict way, based on my rules.
  • improve-animations - Audit all the animations in your codebase and get prioritized, self-contained plans that any agent can execute.
  • find-animation-opportunities - Search your UI for places that would genuinely benefit from motion, while also telling you what not to animate.
  • animation-performance - Fix animations that drop frames. It includes lots of subtle issues that most agents miss.
  • animation-vocabulary - Get better animations from an AI by telling it exactly what you want by using the right words.
  • apple-design - Apple’s principles for interface design and fluid motion, distilled from their WWDC design talks and translated for the web.
  • write-swift - Write modern Swift. Includes: value types, Swift 6 concurrency, generics, performance, and Swift Testing.
  • pick-ui-library - Have your agent pick the right library for the task based on libraries I use and trust, instead of letting AI hand-roll a toast component or install an abandoned package.
  • prototype - Build multiple different versions of a UI piece you describe and go through them using a switcher.
  • mobile-native - Make your web app feel native on a phone: sticky hover states, tap highlight flashes, the 100vh bug, inputs that zoom the page, laggy taps, safe areas, and the rest of the small fixes that separate a website from an app.
  • break-ui - Try to break the UI you built with worst-case data: long names, unusual emails, one-letter names, huge counts, empty lists, long labels.
  • ask-sonner - Your guide to working with Sonner, my toast library. Contains setup, styling, recipes, and fixes for the most common issues.