Ariel Salminen
Design systems architect • Author of various open source tools • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
📮 https://arielsalminen.com
📌 https://elenajs.com
👩🏻🦰 She/her
- Working on naming guidelines and design tokens architecture today. I’ve produced so much content that my brain is now mush and it’s barely past noon
- We’re currently working on revised foundations for the new Kesko Design System and I’m researching the existing color systems + their usage across various products and contexts. Super fascinating work given the scale of the organization. 😍 Here's a glimpse into what’s happening:
- This winter has reached a point where I’m like *oh, its only -18°C right now, that’s not too bad*
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- Reposted by Ariel Salminen👋 Ahoy hoy! I'm looking for new client/contract work opportunities. I'm a front-end developer that has a penchant for specialising in design systems, design tokens, & components. If you're building, maintaining or working on a design system, I can help. Let's chat! stu@alwaystwisted.com. 🙏🖤
- Would you like to work with me? 👋🏻 I’m currently helping to strengthen the existing design systems team at Kesko and we’re looking for a nice & talented designer/developer to join us. arielsalminen.com/2026/hiring-...
- Brought my friend to the office today. She’s clearly eyeing for this position as well.
- Solving the Cheese Crave™
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[Not loaded yet] - Kicking off 2026 at work finally. First up: finishing a job posting to find someone to help me with the current project.
- Hamburg looks like home now. ❄️
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- Arielle being introduced to the weirdest German New Year's traditions
- Off to Hamburg (🇩🇪) with the kids to celebrate New Year’s with my partner's family.
- Just merged @annaecook.com’s PR to design-system.club ☺️
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- Nice to get great feedback about the past autumn from a client of mine just before the holidays. Especially when it’s about me exceeding their (already originally) high expectations.
- Focusing on very important bits on this placeholder page elenajs.com
- Reposted by Ariel SalminenSomething that hasn't been made clear: Firefox will have an option to completely disable all AI features. We've been calling it the AI kill switch internally. I'm sure it'll ship with a less murderous name, but that's how seriously and absolutely we're taking this. …
- Decided to start my vacation a day earlier than planned. So just basically pinged the rest of the team with *see y'all in 4 weeks.* 😂
- Been neck deep within React/Next.js this past week and now wish I was on that *vacation already* (2 more days of work left!). But hey, SSR & Next.js Server Components support for these Custom Elements seems to be working finally 😍
- This open source *thing* is moving forward on the side as I’m working on the core custom elements/web components tooling for my client’s design system.
- Baked a little evening snack for me and kids
- Reposted by Ariel SalminenSafari 26.2 is here with 65 features + 165 bug fixes — including field-sizing, Navigation API, Largest Contentful Paint, command & commandfor, CHIPS opt-in partitioned cookies, scrollend event, random(), WebGPU in WebXR, scrollbar-color, hidden=until-found and much more! webkit.org/blog/17640/w...
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- Reposted by Ariel SalminenThe handmade, human qualities of your work are more valuable than they've ever been. Don't doubt that for a second.
- Migrated today back to a code editor without AI capabilities. Such a bliss to work with.
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- Reposted by Ariel SalminenYou can fundamentally rewire your brain to properly understand CSS layout... for $34.50. Can’t say fairer than that! One day left.
- Enjoying building something new quite a bit this week.
- @darn.es CEO of Jarvis Grip Framework, how may I help you
