Ariel Salminen

I’ve worked with web components for nearly a decade and built various enterprise-scale design systems with them.

Hi 👋🏻, I’m Arielle, a Design Systems Architect working with Kesko.

I have been recently contemplating the intricate relationship between my personal life and the work I do, particularly how these domains inevitably get intertwined and influence one another.

Large Language Models are increasingly relying on information found on the web, but often struggle to handle most websites in their entirety because the context windows are too small.

As mentioned in my previous post, we recently introducing a completely new section for the Nord Design System, called Community Assets.

I’m intrigued to see Figma announce their own Model Context Protocol server to help LLMs achieve design-informed code generation.

Over the past six weeks, my colleague and I have been working on a new major update for the Nord Design System.

If you’ve worked with CSS for a longer period, you’ve probably seen and used about a dozen different ways to center block-level elements on the page.

View Transitions are probably one of my favorite CSS features at the moment.

One of the features that I’m quite happy about on my new website is the built-in search functionality and how the search index gets built for it.

Webfonts play a crucial role in giving our websites personalized feel, but they can also be a hidden culprit behind sluggish load times.

Over the past month I’ve been slowly handcrafting a new website for myself to better showcase what I do and have a future home for experiments I may want to tinker with.

This challenge has been recently making rounds on the Internet and as I’ve seen a lot of my friends and people I follow in the tech industry take part, I figured that I want to, as well.

Sometimes I find vintage technology fascinating and since I couldn’t find a Design Systems Webring (remember those things from the 90s?!)

On the terrace of my old home, I ponder in silence the fairy tale I now live in.

I recently sat down with the team behind the Design System Guide to talk about Nord Design System and how it’s been shaping our work at Nordhealth.

A frozen lake, stars gazing above I can hear them play my song And I’m swiveling.

Nord Design System was recently nominated for the Best Design System award at Grand One competition and won an honorable mention for the best developer experience.

I’ve been leading various successful design systems teams over the past years and in this post I wanted to share a simple set of fundamental rules we’ve followed.

Dark mode is an user interface mode that displays light text on a dark background.

A Design Systems Lead role includes driving the vision, strategy, roadmap, build and implementation of a design system.

In the context of design systems, a Product Design Architect provides strategic and creative direction for the design system.

I’ve been years watching everyone around me change.

Nord Design System was recently nominated for the Jamstack Conf Jammies award in “Project of the Year” category.

I was recently interviewed by Lovers Magazine about what led me into design and what type of things inspire me as a designer.

We’re excited to announce the first major release of Nord Design System, v1.0.

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I’m happy to announce Three Plus Group’s and Finnish Net Solutions’ new name and corporate identity, Nordhealth.

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Nordhealth hired me in 2020 to help reimagine what the company’s approach to designing, building and shipping digital products at scale should look like.

Why does it feel like the devices we use are getting slower over time?

When we started working on Duet Design System early last year, one of our goals was to create similar component playgrounds as I had previously built for Vue Design System.

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Following this tutorial you will learn how to build simple page layouts using Duet’s Design Tokens, CSS Framework, Web Components and other features.

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Following this tutorial you will learn how to utilize Duet’s Command Line Interface to create simple websites that can be shared via GitHub Pages, Amazon S3, and Azure Storage.

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Following this tutorial you will learn how to server side render Duet Design System’s Web Components using Eleventy and other static site generators.

It’s August, 2018.

Ever read an article praising design systems and how they magically solve design and frontend challenges?

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