Learn to direct AI, encode your design taste and build polished, accessible interfaces with Emil Kowalski’s practical UI workflows and skills.

Build AI-Generated Interfaces That Don’t Feel Generic

AI can produce a functional interface quickly—but poor spacing, excessive animation and generic design choices can make the result feel unfinished.

AI for Designers and Engineers by Emil Kowalski teaches you how to use AI as a tool that amplifies your creative judgment instead of replacing it. You’ll learn to communicate your design standards, guide AI through real UI projects and review its output with the eye of an experienced designer or engineer.

The workflows primarily use Claude Code, but the underlying principles can be applied to other AI coding agents.

Benefits and Learning Outcomes

✅ Encode your personal or team design standards into reusable AI skills

✅ Build real interfaces from early prototypes to polished components

✅ Make AI-generated layouts feel intentional rather than templated

✅ Recognize which UI tasks should be delegated to AI

✅ Review and improve AI-generated design and code

✅ Create accessible interfaces for different users and devices

✅ Improve interface performance, typography, color and animation

✅ Communicate more precisely with AI using design and engineering vocabulary

Included UI Skills

Design Skills

• Design Foundations: Create intentional, well-structured layouts
• Typography: Improve readability and visual hierarchy
• Color: Select colors that work in light and dark modes
• Surfaces: Apply depth and surface treatments correctly
• UI Polish: Refine the details that make interfaces feel complete
• Marketing Pages: Build stronger landing and marketing pages
• Design Vocabulary: Describe visual requirements more precisely

Engineering Skills

• Component Design: Apply best practices when creating UI components
• Forms and Inputs: Build more effective forms and interactions
• Touch and Accessibility: Support different devices and user needs
• Performance: Create faster, more responsive interfaces
• Animations: Design motion that feels natural and purposeful
• UI Review: Identify mistakes before an interface ships
• Engineering Vocabulary: Give AI clearer technical instructions

The course also includes a lesson on writing effective UI skills and a reusable writing-skills resource.

Course Resources

• 14 practical UI skills
• Real AI-assisted interface workflows
• Private Discord community
• Lifetime course access
• Free future updates
• Opportunities to influence future lessons

The course is being released through early access, so some lessons may be added after enrollment.

Who Is This Course For?

This training is designed for UI designers, product designers, design engineers, frontend developers and teams using AI to build digital products.

Traditional coding expertise is not required, but students should be able to recognize the difference between a strong interface and a mediocre one.

About Emil Kowalski

Emil Kowalski is a design engineer at Linear and previously worked on the design team at Vercel. He also created the open-source React libraries Sonner and Vaul and teaches the popular animations.dev course.

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