Ex-Vercel/Linear engineer open-sources design 'skills' for AI agents, 36.2k stars
tom_doerr · x · 2026-09-09
Motion engineer Emil Kowalski open-sourced Skills for Designers and Engineers (36.2k GitHub stars), a set of installable skills that give AI coding agents design taste: correct easing for enter animations, semi-transparent shadows over solid borders, and other UI details.
- Install via npx skills@latest add emilkowalski/skills
- The skills distill years of experience at Vercel and Linear; his thesis: AI doesn't replace domain expertise, it amplifies it
- Core argument: agents lack taste, and these small details compound in UI quality
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