Ariel Salminen
Design Systems Architect at Ariel S. Design
Helsinki, Mainland Finland
Summary
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RockstarAriel Salminen is a Design Systems Architect with over 14 years of hands-on experience and two decades in the web platform space, helping organizations like Adobe, Amazon, Cisco and Microsoft build scalable design systems and tooling. She blends strategic leadership with deep front-end craftsmanship—authoring open-source UI tools (notably a Vue design system and tiny responsive plugins) and personally building web components, design token systems and documentation platforms. At Nordhealth she led the design transformation, growing teams and shipping the widely recognized Nord Design System and related automation and theme tooling. Ariel is equally at home mentoring teams and implementing low-level accessibility, performance and developer-experience improvements, and she founded Helsinki Device Lab to help teams test across real devices. Her work is distinguished by shipping pragmatic infrastructure that bridges design and code, from CLI tools to color generators and Eleventy-based docs.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
English, Finnish, Swedish
Github Skills (26)
styles10
javascript10
styleguidist10
jquery10
ui-components10
css10
responsive-design10
carbon-design-system10
system-design10
ui-design10
stylecop10
system10
uid10
front-end-development10
vue-component10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
arielsalminen/TinyNav.js
Dec 2011 - Jan 2023
Responsive navigation plugin that weighs just 443 bytes
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:71 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 11 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ariel primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of the TinyNav.js plugin. Their contributions include adding a demo page to showcase the plugin's functionality and modifying the HTML and CSS to improve responsiveness and visual presentation. The user updated the project to include a viewport meta tag and made several changes to the demo page layout and code styling, further refining the user experience. Additionally, they updated the project's documentation, specifically adding a link to the documentation and adding a new example.
navigationbarnavresponsiveresponsive-navigationnavbar
arielsalminen/responsive-nav.js
Mar 2013 - Jan 2023
Responsive navigation plugin without library dependencies and with fast touch screen support.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:499 commits, 5 PRs, 13 pushes in 10 years
Contributions summary:Ariel primarily worked on the development of a responsive navigation plugin, focusing on the front-end aspects. The contributions included initial implementations, bug fixes, and updates to the demo, as well as code formatting and improvements. The user also added comments, updated documentation and replaced old urls with new ones.
dependenciestouch-screennavigationbartouchplugin
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