Emil Kowalski
Design engineer; made Sonner and Vaul, teaches animations.dev; formerly Linear and Vercel.
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- Emil Kowalski is a design engineer who writes about animation and interface craft.
- He worked at Linear and Vercel on the visual side of the product and marketing pages, and as of 2026 is taking a break from work.
- He made the React components Sonner (toasts) and Vaul (drawers), and teaches web animation in the animations.dev course, which over 13,000 designers and engineers have taken.
Key facts
- Earlier
- Design engineer at Linear and at Vercel1
- Open source
- Sonner, a toast component for React; Vaul, a drawer component for React1
- Teaches
- animations.dev (over 13,000 students); aiforui.dev2
- Writes
- Essays on animation and taste at emilkowal.ski1
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