Ariel Salminen

You’re reading the very first Duet Design System monthly update.

LocalTapiola hired me in 2019 to help reimagine what the company’s approach to designing, building and shipping digital products at scale should look like.

Vue Design System is a set of organized tools, patterns, and practices that work as the foundation for Vue.js application development.

I’m happy.

Nosto hired me in 2017 to help reimagine what the company’s approach to designing and building digital products at scale should look like.

March, 2017.

For the past year(s) I’ve been chasing for answers.

We love typefaces.

Back in 2004, when I had just started my career, sIFR was the hottest thing out there.

I’m terribly excited to tell that we’re moving to San Francisco Bay Area in the beginning of 2016!

I designed the 6th edition of this website almost 5 years ago, which is an eternity by today’s standards.

Reid Miles was an American modernist designer, a genius of his time, best known for his work for Blue Note Records through the 1950’s and 60’s.

During the winter 2014, me and my family rented an apartment from San Diego, CA for few months through my work.

I am Ariel Salminen, a designer and developer living in Helsinki, Finland.

This is an experiment I did months ago, but eventually never ended up posting it here.

Manually adjusting line-height with media queries for optimum readability across vast number of screen sizes can be hard.

I was recently interviewed by .Net Magazine (in issue 254) about how web experts manage cross-platform testing.

Today, we are open sourcing the JavaScript code and the assets we used to build the responsive navigation on Adtile’s website.

While I’ve worked over a decade building various web services and systems, it has only been the past 3 years that I’ve started learning more on how to work with plain JavaScript, instead of using jQuery or similar libraries as the starting point when it c…

Today, after over two years, I’ll be leaving my position at Kisko Labs.

Responsive Nav is a tiny JavaScript plugin which weighs only 1.6KB minified and Gzip’ed, and helps you to create a toggled navigation for small screens.

The history of typography dates back about 5,000 years.

I were quite surprised few weeks ago when I found out with Matt, my colleague, that no one has tested thoroughly which mobile browsers support input type=file and how to reliably detect the support.

Remote preview is a tiny JavaScript based tool which I built for our test lab.

Not so long after the device lab was born I realized that we need a much better way to store and charge all the 40+ devices.

I wrote an article to Smashing Magazine.

If you’ve been building websites during the past two years you must know that the web doesn’t live on a desk anymore.

During the last week I was at the Webshaped conference listening Stephen Hay’s talk about responsive design workflow.

Couple months ago while I were designing a website I remembered a technique I had long forgotten.

CSS is designed primarily to enable the separation of content from presentation, including elements such as the layout, colors, and fonts.

Recently I started testing how proportional scaling of bigger layouts would work in reality and if it makes any sense.

There seems to be some confusion about these terms and what they mean, so here’s my thoughts on the subject and few links to back them up.

I have been intrigued by the idea of making a typographic scale out of a musical scale that would not only be very readable, but also aesthetically pleasing.

I created another responsive jQuery plugin during the Christmas holidays.

While you can find two dozen blog posts and articles about various image replacement techniques using Google, I couldn’t find any article that would help when you want the replacement to be fluid.

I created this plugin while I were developing my own site and decided few days ago to release it as an open source version.

Since you are here, you have probably noticed that there’s a new design which I have been working on for some time now.

I wrote a blog post about making responsive jQuery slideshow on 18 May 2010 (You can read it here).

This example makes it possible to have a fluid jQuery slideshow which scales responsively.

Forget CSS3, images, semantics, better methods and that it doesn’t make any sense.