Gabriela Gabriel

Building Design Systems in the Browser.

It’s been a while since I've noticed how important is to put the ‘cancel button’ in the right place. Back in my tech school, we were learning how to build software and I was so interested in their interfaces - even though they were grey! Then I met the web: all the liberty of colors, forms, and movements capt my eyes and also took my breath away. Since then, I’ve been working with Design Engineering: holding opposing ideas in mind at once and having this superpower of translating this mindset to build bridges and close the gaps.

I help teams to collaborate and achieve a common goal: working in concert to bring products to life.

Some of my daily work includes sharing the best practices around planning, designing, building, and deploying a design system.

As a designer, I keep in mind consistency and a systemic view using research and tools to help me out on this industrialization process.

As a UI Engineer, I focus on quality, maintainability, and scale through the DRY concept.

As a result, component libraries, cross-browser development, progressive enhancement / graceful degradation, responsive design, performance, and accessibility are natural parts of the workflow.

As a leader, I care about methodology and collaboration keeping in mind the user-centric view to create the best user experience.