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SkillNo. 01Apple's approach to interface design and fluidApple design
emilkowalski/skills · by emilkowalskiApple'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/…★ 40.8k GitHub starsFree
SkillNo. 02Encodes Emil Kowalski's philosophy on UI polishDesign Engineeringemilkowalski/skills · by emilkowalskiThis skill encodes Emil Kowalski's philosophy on UI polish, component design, animation decisions, and the invisible details that make software feel great.★ 40.8k GitHub starsFree
SkillNo. 03Reviews animation and motion code against a high craft barReviewing Animationsemilkowalski/skills · by emilkowalskiReviews animation and motion code against a high craft bar derived from Emil Kowalski's design engineering philosophy. Default to flagging; approval is earned.★ 40.8k GitHub starsFreeSkillApple's approach to interface design and fluidApple designemilkowalski/skills · by emilkowalskiApple'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/…★ 40.8k GitHub starsFreeSkillEncodes Emil Kowalski's philosophy on UI polishDesign Engineeringemilkowalski/skills · by emilkowalskiThis skill encodes Emil Kowalski's philosophy on UI polish, component design, animation decisions, and the invisible details that make software feel great.★ 40.8k GitHub starsFreeSkillReviews animation and motion code against a high craft barReviewing Animationsemilkowalski/skills · by emilkowalskiReviews animation and motion code against a high craft bar derived from Emil Kowalski's design engineering philosophy. Default to flagging; approval is earned.★ 40.8k GitHub starsFree
SkillBuild an animation from scratchBuilding Animationsemilkowalski/skills · by emilkowalskiBuild an animation from scratch, making the decisions in the order that determines whether it feels right — should it animate at all, what purpose, which tool, which pro…★ 40.8k GitHub starsFree
SkillSearch a codebase or UI for places that don't animate butFinding Animation Opportunitiesemilkowalski/skills · by emilkowalskiSearch a codebase or UI for places that don't animate but should, and reject everything that shouldn't. Read-only; it proposes motion with exact values, it does not impl…★ 40.8k GitHub starsFree
SkillPick the right library for a given frontend taskPicking The Right Libraryemilkowalski/skills · by emilkowalskiPick the right library for a given frontend task from a curated, opinionated list — numbers, OTP inputs, charts, command menus, virtualization, drag and drop, toasts, st…★ 40.8k GitHub starsFree
SkillReverse-lookup glossary that turns a vague descriptionAnimation vocabularyemilkowalski/skills · by emilkowalskiReverse-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 iO…★ 40.8k GitHub starsFree
SkillBuild animations in React Native and ExpoBuilding Animations in Expoemilkowalski/skills · by emilkowalskiBuild animations in React Native and Expo, making the decisions in the order that determines whether they feel right — should it animate, which thread it runs on, which…★ 40.8k GitHub starsFree
SkillSurvey a codebase's animation and motion codeImproving Animationsemilkowalski/skills · by emilkowalskiSurvey a codebase's animation and motion code as a senior motion advisor, then produce a prioritized audit and self-contained implementation plans for other agents (or c…★ 40.8k GitHub starsFree
SkillBuild multiple genuinely different versions of a UI piecePrototyping Variantsemilkowalski/skills · by emilkowalskiBuild multiple genuinely different versions of a UI piece you describe, rendered behind a visual picker so you can flip through them live and promote the one that feels…★ 40.8k GitHub starsFree
SkillGuide to Sonner, the React toastWorking With Sonneremilkowalski/skills · by emilkowalskiGuide to Sonner, the React toast library — install and wire up the Toaster, pick the right toast() call, promise and loading toasts, updating, dismissing and persisting…★ 40.8k GitHub starsFree
SkillHow to write modern SwiftWrite swiftemilkowalski/skills · by emilkowalskiHow to write modern Swift well — modeling with value types, Swift 6 data-race safety and approachable concurrency (@concurrent, main-actor-by-default, actors, task group…★ 40.8k GitHub starsFree
SkillMake a web app feel native on aFeeling Native On Mobileemilkowalski/skills · by emilkowalskiMake a web app feel native on a phone — the small CSS and meta-tag fixes that separate "a website in a browser" from something that feels installed. Covers sticky hover…★ 40.8k GitHub starsFree