Skills
Emil Kowalski SkillsThe skill file to add when the work is motion quality, not just a prettier layout.
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Skills
Emil Kowalski SkillsThe skill file to add when the work is motion quality, not just a prettier layout.
25 loading buttons, each a different animation you click to replay.
An ASCII Beyblade — build a spinner out of its shape, then let it rip.
A page that watches how you click.
A real-time cloud renderer you can fly through.
A falling-sand drawing toy in the browser.
A random useless website, on demand.
Paul Graham on choosing work worth a life.
Spaces' magazine of interface craft and studio visits.
Using AI without dropping your standards: shaping, TDD, triage.
Cloudflare's six-phase security audit, run by your agent.
A curated catalog of design-engineering skills.
Courses and events for engineers building AI products.
Emil Kowalski's course on what makes animation feel right.
An interactive manual of interface detail, with components.
Articles, walkthroughs, and tools for interface craft.
A design-engineering magazine with interactive demos.
A course on the details that make interfaces feel considered.
Hands-on courses across frontend, backend, cloud, and AI.
Community roadmaps and guides for developers.
4,000+ MIT icons in outline and solid, with Lucide-compatible names and props.
Declarative Web Audio synthesis, with React hooks.
Tune sliders, colours, springs, and easing in real time.
26 dither animations, tuned live and exported as a self-contained canvas embed.
A Tailwind plugin for smoother gradient fades.
Production animation for React, JavaScript, and Vue.
OKLCH colour ramps and semantic tokens from one brand colour.
Small tools beside the React Bits component set.
Screenshot editor and mockup maker — gradient backgrounds, browser frames, shadows, 3D, animation.
338 generative patterns, recoloured live and exported as PNG, SVG, or PDF.
Lo-fi raster effects — stipple, halftone dots, patterns — for stills and video. Opens on stippling.
Turn UI into polished product photos and video.
Historical design books, specimens, posters, and ephemera.
An archive of consumer aesthetics, era by era.
Around thirty design books held to be essential, from Meggs and Hofmann to Laws of UX.
Acclaimed films, one random frame at a time.
Short moving-image excerpts across decades of screen work.
Public-domain artwork images from the Met, free under CC0.
A searchable archive of typographic posters.
Every Whole Earth Catalog and journal, 1968–2002.
Berlin foundry behind ABC Diatype and Monument Grotesk.
Prague foundry behind Reckless, Tobias, and Matter.
A free quality font service by ITF.
A curated gallery of free sans-serif typefaces.
Swiss foundry behind GT America, GT Sectra, and GT Alpina.
Kris Sowersby's foundry: National, Tiempos, Söhne.
Montreal foundry behind Neue Montreal, Mori, and PP Editorial.
163 contemporary typefaces, free for commercial use.
Free, experimental open-source typefaces from Paris.
A platform for connecting ideas.
A directory of design-engineering work, tools, and people.
Web design-engineering tools, grouped by job.
Fifty-odd single-purpose design tools, each labelled by job and by price.
2,479 tools across 59 categories, filterable by platform and pricing.
Design-engineering links across 18 categories, plus an index of who ships what.
A community image library searchable by up to five colours at once.
A visual-technique library, searchable by name.
Typefaces catalogued as they appear in the wild.
A gallery of website footers, sortable by type and style.
210 hand-picked indie iOS apps, listed by icon, name, and tagline.
Notable hover effects, transitions, and experimental sites.
1,741 hand-reviewed design, craft, and AI tools across 19 categories.
Portfolio sites built to convert, not just to impress.
A portrait-video archive of experimental mobile websites, curated since 2021.
A small, opinionated collection of videos for designers.
Open-source alternatives to proprietary tools, ranked by repo health.
CC0 HDRIs, textures, and 3D models, free for any use.
Motion showreels, tagged by style, industry, and soundtrack.
A directory and leaderboard for agent skills.
Animated posters, credited to the studios behind them.
Interactive explainers on graphics: dithering, distance fields, 3D space.
Write a sentence, get Smithsonian images back.
React and Tailwind components, installable in one command.
Primitives for AI interfaces: reasoning, tools, streaming.
HTML-in-canvas components for WebGL and WebGPU.
Free React micro-interactions built with Tailwind and Motion.
React effect libraries, from thinking orbs to liquid metal.
Carefully crafted loading indicators for React.
Copy-paste motion components for animated interfaces.
Animated, customizable React components, open source.
217 hand-drawn doodles, copied out as SVG or a prop-driven component.
A typed variant API for Tailwind: variants, slots, compounds.
Copy-ready Three.js components, backgrounds, and shaders.
Copy-paste UI transitions for web apps and agents.