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Cristiano Rastelli

Growing as an IC contributor

Some thoughts about my career, based on my experience and professional journey as an IC (Individual Contributor) Engineer

Nov 26, 2024

Growing as an IC contributor

Nov 26, 2024

Design systems, medieval cathedrals, and architects.

Was the Gothic style one of the first examples of a “design language” based on modularity and repetition?

Aug 19, 2020

Design systems, medieval cathedrals, and architects.

Aug 19, 2020

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Design Tokens beyond colors, typography, and spacing.

Design tokens are mainly used for “core” properties (colors, typography, spacing, etc). But trust me, they can do much more than just this.

Nov 12, 2019

Design Tokens beyond colors, typography, and spacing.

Nov 12, 2019

Measuring the Impact of a Design System

Visualising the positive impact on the work of a team of UI engineers, by the adoption of a design system.

Jan 29, 2019

Measuring the Impact of a Design System

Jan 29, 2019

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Bumble Tech

Generating multi-brand multi-platform icons with Sketch and a Node.js script

Second part: the build script and the generation of the assets.

Dec 6, 2018

Dec 6, 2018

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Bumble Tech

Generating multi-brand multi-platform icons with Sketch and a Node.js script

First part: from the idea to the assets Sketch files.

Dec 5, 2018

Dec 5, 2018

How to manage your Design Tokens with Style Dictionary

Recently I have come across a tool, called Style Dictionary, developed by Danny Banks at Amazon, that allows you to manage design tokens…

Sep 27, 2018

How to manage your Design Tokens with Style Dictionary

Sep 27, 2018

Keep it simple, stupid!

How one line of CSS code saved me hours of React development

Apr 6, 2018

Keep it simple, stupid!

Apr 6, 2018

Technical debt in a quip

“Why did it took so long?”

Mar 21, 2018

Technical debt in a quip

Mar 21, 2018

Autobiography in Five Short Chapters

A quote from “There’s a Hole in My Sidewalk” by Portia Nelson

Mar 8, 2018

Autobiography in Five Short Chapters

Mar 8, 2018

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From zero to Cosmos — Part #3

Third part: where I show where we are today, and where we think we will be in the future

Feb 22, 2018

From zero to Cosmos — Part #3

Feb 22, 2018

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From zero to Cosmos — Part #2

Second part: here come the dragons, and where the “grand plan” takes place

Feb 14, 2018

From zero to Cosmos — Part #2

Feb 14, 2018

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From zero to Cosmos — Part #1

First part: where everything started, and where I reaped the fruits of my labour

Feb 5, 2018

From zero to Cosmos — Part #1

Feb 5, 2018

Missed opportunities

A non zero-sum game

Jan 30, 2018

Missed opportunities

Jan 30, 2018

Chemistry over Culture

An interesting discussion about the meaning of these two words, and possible implications in their use.

Dec 2, 2017

Chemistry over Culture

Dec 2, 2017

Let There Be Peace on CSS

A talk on a war that is dividing the CSS community, made in the name of the “separation of concerns”, and a peace that is starting to see…

Oct 1, 2017

Let There Be Peace on CSS

Oct 1, 2017

Systemantics

A review of a book that has a lot to say about systems: how they works, how they fail, but most of all how we should build them

Jun 11, 2017

Systemantics

Jun 11, 2017

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To BEM ot not to BEM

To BEM or not to BEM : Michele Bertoli

“Now that we have components, BEM is not needed anymore. In my opinion, this closes the circle.”

Apr 18, 2017

To BEM or not to BEM : Michele Bertoli

Apr 18, 2017

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To BEM ot not to BEM

To BEM or not to BEM : Mark Dalgleish

“One of the most exciting things about CSS Modules for me is that it takes the principles behind BEM, but makes it look and feel like…

Apr 13, 2017

To BEM or not to BEM : Mark Dalgleish

Apr 13, 2017

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To BEM ot not to BEM

To BEM or not to BEM : Katia Utochkina

“I think BEM is easy to pick up. It is very logical. It also allows for better code readability. I think it makes my code more consistent…

Apr 11, 2017

To BEM or not to BEM : Katia Utochkina

Apr 11, 2017

Cristiano Rastelli

Cristiano Rastelli

Design System Lead at HashiCorp. In love with Atomic Design, Design Systems & CSS architecture. Attendee/speaker/organiser of tech conferences and meetups.

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