AI for Designers and Engineers
A course that teaches you how to build great interfaces with AI, without lowering your bar.
Enrollment reopens January 19th
Join the waitlist to get two preview lessons and be the first to know when enrollment reopens.
You can tell when an interface was built with AI.
The spacing is slightly off. The animations feel cheap, or there are too many of them. Everything looks like a template. It works, that’s about as good as it gets.
So most of us end up in one of two places. Some avoid AI for UI work altogether, doing everything by hand, others let AI run and accept what comes out, shipping interfaces that feel generic.
Neither one is a good place to be.
AI is only as good as the person directing it
The people getting great results with AI aren’t using a secret model or a magic prompt. They know what a great interface looks like, and they know how to steer AI towards it.
They know how to make AI follow their taste instead of its defaults. When to delegate and when to take over. How to review and test AI’s output the way a proper designer or engineer would, and how to catch the details it gets wrong.
Work that used to take a week takes a day, and the quality bar doesn’t drop, it goes up, because you can spend your time on the things that actually matter.
That’s the skill this course teaches.
“I’ve been in early access for the past few months, and it’s helped a ton with translating taste to UI, especially when it comes to describing what I actually want. It’s not magic, but it’s pretty dang close.”
What you’ll learn
This is a course about using AI the way it should be used: as a tool that amplifies your taste, not a replacement for it. You’ll learn:
- How to encode your taste, or the taste of your team/others, into rules and skills, so AI’s output looks like your work, not a template.
- Workflows for building real interfaces with AI, from prototype to end result.
- How to use AI for the parts it’s genuinely good at, and how to recognize the parts where it will let you down.
- How to review, test, and refine AI output, so you ship interfaces that feel great.
You’ll also get the 28 skills I use every day, and , a tool I built for reviewing animations.
Hey, I’m Emil
I’m a design engineer at Linear, and before that I worked on the design team at Vercel. I also created Sonner and Vaul, two open source React libraries downloaded over 80,000,000 times per week from npm.
My previous course, animations.dev, has been taken by over 13,000 designers and engineers from companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Apple, and Stripe. If you’ve taken it, you know the level of quality to expect here.
“Emil's courses are simple but delightful! In a world where AI makes shipping all types of UI extremely easy, he focuses on helping people gain the foundational principles needed to build exceptional interfaces.”
What’s included
Alongside the lessons, you get everything I use to build interfaces with AI.
28 UI skills to help you prototype, review, and build great interfaces.
Lapse, a tool that helps you slow down, inspect, and review animations properly.
An exclusive Discord community where you can learn with others.
A visual vocabulary of 244 terms to tell your agents exactly what you want.
“I was on the back foot thinking I already knew most of the stuff. I was completely wrong. Honestly, the price is worth it just for the skills themselves, which are saving me tons of back and forth in polish and prep for handoff on a day-to-day basis.”
Join designers and engineers learning AI for UI.
Join the waitlist to get two free lessons and be the first to know when enrollment reopens.
Enrollment reopens on Tuesday, January 19
