# Developing Taste

Essay by Emil Kowalski (https://emilkowal.ski)

Why taste matters and how to develop it.

Topics: Craft
Source: https://emilkowal.ski/ui/developing-taste

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Skills in this library that act on the same ground:

- emil-design-eng (https://stackskills.dev/md/emil-design-eng): The design-engineering house style behind Sonner and Vaul.
- prototype (https://stackskills.dev/md/prototype): Builds several genuinely different UI variants behind a live picker.
- apple-design (https://stackskills.dev/md/apple-design): Apple's interface and motion principles, translated for the web.
- better-ui (https://stackskills.dev/md/better-ui): Concentric radius, optical alignment, surface depth, hit areas.
- better-interface (https://stackskills.dev/md/better-interface): Every better-* skill as a single review pass.

## The short version

Shipping something that works stopped being a differentiator once everyone could do it. What separates products now is design and detail, and taste is trained rather than innate.

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