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    Skills for Designers and Engineers.

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    MIT
    45.7K stars
    2.6K forks
    45.7K GitHub watchers
    Updated Oct 13, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    Ranks #425 of 2,845 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 15%).

    The project lists 3 contributors on GitHub.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides curated skills and guidelines to help designers and engineers create better user interfaces with effective animations and design choices.
    • Offers expert-driven, practical advice that prevents common animation and design mistakes, enhancing UI quality beyond generic AI suggestions.
    • Use for improving animation quality in web interfaces by applying strict review and improvement rules based on domain expertise.
    • Use for auditing existing UI animations to identify opportunities for meaningful motion and prioritize actionable improvements.
    • Ideal for guiding AI-assisted UI prototyping and library selection to ensure design consistency and technical appropriateness.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    MIT

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

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    • README: present

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    From the README

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

    Knowing whether you made a right choice when it comes to animations, or design in general, is hard. These skills aim to help you get to those right decisions faster.

    They are based on my years of experience working at companies like Vercel and Linear.

    All the skills here are a side-effect of domain-expertise. AI doesn’t replace such expertise, it amplifies what you can get out of it and makes you way better relative to others.

    So learn to code, design, or develop expertise in any other field. It’s extremely valuable.

    Agents don’t have great taste

    I have seen plenty of times that agents don’t pick the right ingredients for an animation. An ease-in easing for an enter animation when it’s supposed to be ease-out (here’s why). Or they choose a solid border instead of a semi-transparent shadow for your UIs.

    All these small things compound and make your interface either amazing, or just... not that great.

    As explained in Agents with Taste, these skills list all the little mistakes agents can potentially make and explain how to fix them.

    This is your shortcut to great interfaces. A shortcut to stand out in a sea of slop.

    Excerpt from the emilkowalski/skills README on GitHub (MIT license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Jul 28: +508Jul 29: +451Jul 30: +454Jul 31: +384Aug 1: +307Aug 2: +302Aug 3: +406Aug 4: +500Aug 5: +768Aug 6: +505Aug 7: +725Aug 8: +389Aug 9: +432

    +24,232 stars over 78 days across 18 snapshot days; best day +768 on Aug 5.

    Forks

    2.6K+1.4K

    Open issues

    4-1

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