Give your coding agent taste. 11 design-engineering skills from Emil Kowalski (ex-Vercel, ex-Linear) — animation decisions, motion review, Apple design principles, and UI polish. MIT-licensed, curated with attribution.
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What you get
- 11 skills: emil-design-eng (core philosophy), animate (+recipes), review-animations (+standards), improve-animations (codebase audit), find-animation-opportunities, animation-vocabulary, apple-design, prototype, pick-ui-library, mobile-native, break-ui
- Verbatim MIT-licensed content with LICENSE + ATTRIBUTION.md included
- Install-ready ZIP: unzip into your agent's skills folder
Good fit
- Polishing UI motion before launch or demo
- Reviewing agent-generated animations that feel "off"
- Learning animation fundamentals through your agent
Not for
- Non-UI work (no coding logic here)
- React Native / Swift projects (those skills were excluded; install from source for the full set)
- Name
- Emil Kowalski Design Skills
- Downloads
- 0
- Category
- Design
- Skills inside
- 1
Download & install
What's new: Initial SkillStack curated release: 11 design/animation skills from emilkowalski/skills (MIT), verbatim with attribution; Swift/Sonner/Expo skills excluded
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1. Download the ZIP
Use the button above to download the packaged skill. It contains the SKILL.md plus all supporting files.
2. Unzip into your agent's skills folder
Extract the archive so that SKILL.md sits directly inside a folder named after the skill:
unzip emil-kowalski-design-skills-v1.0.0.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/emil-kowalski-design-skills/Skills folder per agent
- Claude Code
- ~/.claude/skills
- Cursor
- ~/.cursor/skills
- Codex
- ~/.codex/skills
- GitHub Copilot
- ~/.copilot/skills
3. Restart your agent
Your agent picks up the new skill automatically on next launch. Ask it what it can do.
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