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This skill encodes Emil Kowalski's philosophy on UI polish, component design, animation decisions, and the invisible details that make software feel great.
Reviews animation and motion code against a high craft bar derived from Emil Kowalski's design engineering philosophy. Default to flagging; approval is earned.
$ npx skills@latest add emilkowalski/skillsReverse-lookup glossary that turns a vague description of a web animation or motion effect into its exact term ("the bouncy thing when a popover opens" → Pop in; "the iOS rubber-band scroll" → Rubber-banding). Use when the user asks "what's it called when…", or describes a motion effect without knowing its name and wants the right word to prompt an AI or designer with. For naming an effect, not designing or building one.
$ npx skills@latest add emilkowalski/skillsApple's approach to interface design and fluid, physical motion, translated for the web. Use when building or reviewing gesture-driven UI, spring animations, drag/swipe/sheet interactions, momentum and interruptible transitions, translucent materials and depth, typography (optical sizing, tracking, leading), reduced-motion, or the design foundations (feedback, spatial consistency, restraint) behind Apple-style interfaces.
$ npx skills@latest add emilkowalski/skillsThe Cursor for Designers • An Open-Source AI-First Design tool • Visually build, style, and edit your React App with AI
$ npx skills add onlook-dev/onlookMaterial UI: Comprehensive React component library that implements Google's Material Design. Free forever.
$ npx skills add mui/material-ui🌼 🌼 🌼 🌼 🌼 The most popular, free and open-source Tailwind CSS component library
$ npx skills add saadeghi/daisyuiChakra UI is a component system for building SaaS products with speed ⚡️
$ npx skills add chakra-ui/chakra-uiCommunity-built comprehensive 2D content creation appplication for graphic design, digital art, and interactive real-time motion graphics powered by a node-based procedural graphics engine
$ npx skills add GraphiteEditor/GraphiteLearn how to design large-scale systems. Prep for the system design interview. Includes Anki flashcards.
$ npx skills add donnemartin/system-design-primerBeautiful & consistent icon toolkit made by the community. Open-source project and a fork of Feather Icons.
$ npx skills add lucide-icons/lucideWrite components once, run everywhere. Compiles to React, Vue, Qwik, Solid, Angular, Svelte, and more.
$ npx skills add BuilderIO/mitosisPrimer is GitHub's design system. This is the CSS implementation
$ npx skills add primer/cssMaterial Design Web Components
$ npx skills add material-components/material-webA toolchain for building scalable, enterprise-ready component systems on top of TypeScript and Web Component standards. Stencil components can be distributed natively to React, Angular, Vue, (+ more) and traditional web applications from a single, framework-agnostic codebase.
$ npx skills add stenciljs/coreUnstyled UI components for building accessible web apps and design systems. From the creators of Radix, Floating UI, and Material UI.
$ npx skills add mui/base-uia react-based framework that provides accessibility, modularity, responsiveness, and theming in a tidy package
$ npx skills add grommet/grommetHow to choose
Use an alternative when it has a clearer install path, higher trust score, fresher maintenance, or better platform fit for your current agent stack. Keep Emil Design Engineering if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.
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