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Hello, I’m Ariel Salminen, a Design Systems Architect from Helsinki, Finland with 20 years of experience helping companies build tools for the web platform.

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  1. Progressive Web Components
    Mar 25, 2026 · original
    pI’ve worked with a href="https://elenajs.com/"web components/a for nearly a decade and built various enterprise-scale design systems with them. While I love what they offer on paper, the same pain points keep coming back:/p pLayout shifts, flash of unstyled content, poor server-side rendering support, too much relianc
  2. Hiring a Design Engineer for Kesko Design System
    Jan 20, 2026 · original
    pHi 👋🏻, I’m a href="https://arielsalminen.com/"Arielle/a, a Design Systems Architect working with a href="https://www.kesko.fi/en/"Kesko/a. I’m currently helping to strengthen the existing design systems team in the organization, whose main responsibility is building and maintaining Kesko’s design and frontend infras
  3. On Freedom, Curiosity & Happiness
    Jul 3, 2025 · original
    pI have been recently contemplating the intricate relationship between my a href="https://bsky.app/profile/arielsalminen.com"personal life/a and the a href="https://arielsalminen.com/"work I do/a, particularly how these domains inevitably get intertwined and influence one another. It’s not always easy to keep these sep
  4. Generating LLMs.txt Using Eleventy
    Jul 2, 2025 · original
    pLarge 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. In an attempt to solve this, there is a new emerging standard called a href="https://llmstxt.org/"llms.txt/a./p pThis proposal aims to
  5. Community Assets in Nord Design System
    Jun 11, 2025 · original
    pAs mentioned in my a href="https://arielsalminen.com/2025/introducing-brands-for-nord-design-system/"previous post/a, we recently introducing a completely new section for the Nord Design System, called a href="https://nordhealth.design/community-assets/"Community Assets/a. These are product-specific assets from featur
  6. Figma MCP Server
    Jun 5, 2025 · original
    pI’m intrigued to see Figma announce their own a href="https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/agents-and-tools/mcp"Model Context Protocol/a server to help LLMs achieve design-informed code generation. I’ve been emalso/em prototyping one utilizing a href="https://github.com/GLips/Figma-Context-MCP"Figma Context MCP/a that w
  7. Introducing Brands for Nord Design System
    Jun 3, 2025 · original
    pOver the past six weeks, my colleague and I have been working on a new major update for the a href="https://nordhealth.design/?theme=vet"Nord Design System/a. The latest code4.0/code version launched a few weeks ago now unifies Nordhealth’s two design system platforms into a single platform that can serve all of the f
  8. Modern Way to Center Elements with CSS
    May 28, 2025 · original
    pIf 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. These methods used to vary between a combination of a href="https://css-tricks.com/negative-margins/"negative margins/a, a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs
  9. View Transitions for Any Website
    May 26, 2025 · original
    pView Transitions are probably one of my favorite CSS features at the moment. You can enable them for any site today by adding the following code snippet into your CSS. This will immediately make the experience of using your website smoother by fundamentally changing the behavior of what happens when people navigate fr
  10. Building Search Index with Eleventy
    May 25, 2025 · original
    pOne of the features that I’m quite happy about on my a href="https://arielsalminen.com/"new website/a is the built-in search functionality and how the search index gets built for it. You can test it out yourself by pressing kbd class="modifier control-key"Ctrl/kbd+kbdK/kbd and entering a search query into the input th
  11. Optimizing Webfont Performance
    May 24, 2025 · original
    pWebfonts play a crucial role in giving a href="https://arielsalminen.com/"our websites/a personalized feel, but they can also be a hidden culprit behind sluggish load times. If you’ve ever wondered why your beautifully designed site isn’t performing optimally, inefficient font loading strategy might be to blame. In th
  12. The 10th Edition of Arielsalminen.com
    May 23, 2025 · original
    pOver the past month I’ve been slowly handcrafting a a href="https://arielsalminen.com/"new website/a for myself to better showcase what I do and have a future home for experiments I may want to tinker with. Designing the whole thing in the browser using codeHTML/code, codeCSS/code, and a tiny bit of plain codeJavaScri
  13. Remember Webrings?
    Apr 25, 2025 · original
    pSometimes I find vintage technology fascinating and since I couldn’t find a a href="https://arielsalminen.com/webrings/"Design Systems Webring/a (remember those things from the 90s?!), I just created one. Feel free to join if you’re into design systems and want to add some 90s vibes onto your website: a href="https://
  14. The Blog Questions Challenge
    Apr 25, 2025 · original
    pThis 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. So this is me answering a set of questions about how and why I blog on this website./p h2 id="why-did-you-start-blogging-in-the-firs
  15. A Love Letter
    Dec 11, 2024 · original
    pOn the terrace of my old home, I ponder in silence the fairy tale I now live in. The love that was born when I met you. In that beautiful part of Helsinki, surrounded by those adorable little shops that sell the most exquisite pastries and merchandise./p pYou’ve given my life countless new meanings. You, who lift me a
  16. Interview with Design System Guide
    Feb 20, 2024 · original
    pI recently sat down with the team behind the a href="https://thedesignsystem.guide/interview-ariel-salminen"Design System Guide/a to talk about a href="https://nordhealth.design/"Nord Design System/a and how it’s been shaping our work at a href="https://nordhealth.com/"Nordhealth/a. We discussed the challenges of buil
  17. My Song
    Jan 21, 2024 · original
    pA frozen lake, stars gazing abovebr / I can hear them play my songbr / And I’m swiveling./p pVague as a fog, barely visiblebr / Hauling through the zephyrbr / Snowflakes falling on my thighs./p pTouching, meltingbr / Altering their shapebr / As I once were./p
  18. Finalist for the Best Design System Award
    May 22, 2023 · original
    pNord Design System was recently nominated for the Best Design System award at a href="https://grandone.fi/kilpailutyot/?palkinto=voittajat&kategoria=paras-design-system"Grand One competition/a and won an honorable mention for the best developer experience./p a href="https://grandone.fi/kilpailutyot/?palkinto=voitt
  19. Leading Successful Product Teams
    Mar 9, 2023 · original
    pI’ve been leading various successful a href="https://nordhealth.design/about/"design systems teams/a over the past years and in this post I wanted to share a simple set of fundamental rules we’ve followed. These rules have allowed those teams to get to the highest level of productivity while benefiting both the compan
  20. Supporting Dark Mode on Your Website
    Mar 1, 2023 · original
    pDark mode is an user interface mode that displays light text on a dark background. Dark mode is helpful for those viewing device screens at night, in dark environments, or otherwise find darker UI more accessible. The reduced brightness can reduce eye strain in low light conditions./p pA typical scenario is that we al

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