Joe Morel

For design skills, I agree. That’s why my skills don’t enforce a specific style, or try to do everything for you, but rather are small and focus on specific rules. Not animating from scale 0, or using ease-out instead of ease-in, is better most of the time, but models don’t always make this choice, so it’s useful to include in a skill and enforce it. Same with gestures, there are rules you can follow to make your gestures feel right. I spent hours trying to get Sonner and Vaul’s gestures right, so those learnings can be encoded into skills too, because they apply to a broad range of UI elements. I like to think of my skills like Radix UI or Base UI, they give you the right backbone, a great starting point. They improve what you already built by adding the right motion, gestures, or some little details like making it feel better on a mobile device. They don’t try to style your app and do everything for you though. That’s why so many people like them, they are like little utilities. If you want to improve your animations, run /animate; to improve your web app on mobile, run /mobile-native, etc. They don’t promise to move mountains, but they work.

I have not seen projects with lots of obvious design mistakes in a while, like the really obvious ones. AI has raised the floor. A decent looking design means nothing anymore, it’s the baseline.