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Emil Kowalski
Personal blog · emilkowal.ski/uidesignprogramming
Emil Kowalski's personal blog at emilkowal.ski covers design and programming. Since 2024, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Good vs. Great Animations”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a post on UI animation, including the technique of tooltip delays that skip after the first show, and a post titled 'you don't need animations'.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Design engineer working at Linear.
Most-linked posts?
- Good vs. Great Animations3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-04-29
- Purposeful animations3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-09-04
- The Magic of Clip Path3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-07-09
- Building a Toast Component3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-01-27
- Agents with Taste – How to transfer taste into an AI2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-22
What Hacker News says?
This looks it's describing the same technique as the last example in https://emilkowal.ski/ui/you-dont-need-animations (and that whole post is worth a read, I think, if you found this interesting). It's such a small detail that I wouldn't have otherwise noticed (because I don't build animations, so it doesn't cross my mind), but now that I know about it, I think about it all the time.
Comment linking /ui/you-dont-need-animations
on “Tooltips need a delay, and then they need to skip it”Submitted Purposeful animations as a story · 546 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a Toast Component as a story · 119 points
HN discussionSubmitted Developing Taste as a story · 52 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Don't Need Animations as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Good vs. Great Animations as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Agents with Taste – How to transfer taste into an AI as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Magic of Clip Path as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Agents with Taste – How to transfer taste into an AI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Train Your Judgement as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a Toast Component as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Good vs. Great Animations as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted CSS Transforms as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Good vs. Great Animations as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a Toast Component as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Friction as a Feature as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Practical Animation Tips as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Magic of Clip Path as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Magic of Clip Path as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Great Animations as a story · 1 points
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