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 (25)
javascript10
styleguidist10
jquery10
ui-components10
css10
responsive-design10
carbon-design-system10
system-design10
ui-design10
stylecop10
system10
uid10
front-end-development10
vue-component10
sys10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
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.
responsive-navigation
arielsalminen/ResponsiveSlides.js
Dec 2011 - Jan 2023
Simple & lightweight responsive slider plugin (in 1kb)
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:249 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 11 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Ariel's contributions primarily involve implementing the example section of the ResponsiveSlides.js plugin. Their commits add CSS styles for the example pages, including both basic styles and media queries, and integrate the plugin in the provided example page with several slideshow variations. They also modified and added a custom class for a custom styled pager.
slideslider1kbcarouselslider-plugin
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