# Using AI as a Design Engineer

Essay by Jakub Krehel (https://jakub.kr)

How I use AI as a design engineer on a daily basis.

Topics: Craft
Source: https://jakub.kr/work/using-ai-as-a-design-engineer

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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

A craft role has every reason to be sceptical of AI. Where it earns its place anyway in work that is mostly trial and error.

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