Agents with Taste

kept by eddie apr 22

Engineers can encode their design taste into structured skill files for AI coding agents, enabling agents to produce visually refined results by following explicit rules for animations, typography, and layout.

GitHub no longer uses Toasts
GitHub's Primer design system no longer recommends toast notifications due to accessibility issues, advocating for banners and inline feedback instead.
also on Sonner, #design, #user-experience
Morphing Icons with Claude
Using Claude Code, the author built a universal icon component where any of 21 icons can smoothly morph into any other by representing each as exactly three SVG lines and using rotation groups for same-shape icons.
also on #animation, Claude Code, #user-experience, #ai-coding, #developer-tools
Introducing text-to-lottie: an open source skill and harness for generating production ready Lottie animations with codex/claude code. $ np
An open-source tool lets developers generate production-ready Lottie animations from text prompts using Codex or Claude Code.
also on #animation, Claude Code, #ai-coding, #developer-tools
GitHub - emilkowalski/skills: Skills for Design Engineers.
A curated set of coding skills for design engineers that encode animation and UI best practices, helping AI agents produce better interfaces through domain expertise.
also on Linear, #design, #user-experience, #ai-coding, #developer-tools
claude code is not making your product better
Coding agents increase senior engineer output but not product velocity, as the bottleneck is product taste and complexity management, not code production speed.
also on Linear, Claude Code, Anthropic, #user-experience, #developer-tools