/emil-design-eng

Name: UI polish and design engineering
Author: emilkowalski

/emil-design-eng is a Claude Code skill in the Web & Design section. It is maintained by emilkowalski and published under the MIT license. Applies Emil Kowalski's philosophy on UI polish, animation decisions and invisible details, and reviews UI code in Before/After tables.

Author's description

This skill encodes Emil Kowalski's philosophy on UI polish, component design, animation decisions, and the invisible details that make software feel great.

How to ask for it

Help me polish the details of this UI the way Emil Kowalski would
Review the animations on this component and make them feel more natural
Give me design feedback on this button using Emil Kowalski's taste

Install

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sgomez-dev/claude-skills/main/install.sh | bash

After installing with the script, type /emil-design-eng. Using Cursor, Windsurf or Codex? Platform guides

Demo coming soon

/find-animation-opportunitiesWhere a UI should animate
Scans a codebase or UI, proposes at most 5-7 places where motion helps with exact values, and rejects the rest. Read-only: it changes no code.
By emilkowalski
/improve-animationsAnimation audit and improvement plan
Surveys a project's motion code and delivers a prioritized audit with self-contained plans for other agents to run. It plans only, never edits source.
By emilkowalski
/pick-ui-libraryPick a frontend library
Recommends one frontend library for your task (toasts, charts, drag and drop, OTP inputs and more) from a curated list by Emil Kowalski.
By emilkowalski
/prototypeUI variants side by side
Builds several genuinely different versions of a UI piece you describe and shows them behind a visual picker, so you can flip through and promote a winner.
By emilkowalski
/review-animationsAnimation code review
Reviews animation and motion code against a high craft bar based on Emil Kowalski's philosophy. It flags by default and only approves work that earns it.
By emilkowalski
/gsap-coreGSAP core animations
A guide to the core GSAP API: to, from, fromTo, easing, duration, stagger and matchMedia for responsive and reduced-motion animation.
By greensock

How to ask for it

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