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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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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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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

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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