Bernhard Schmidt
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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RockstarBernhard Schmidt is a UI/UX engineer with 6 years of focused experience building scalable front-end systems and design systems, currently based in San Francisco and working as Senior Staff UI/UX Engineer at Lightmatter. He led engineering for Adobe’s Spectrum design system, automating 50+ UI-kits and driving code-based integrations across XD and Figma plugins to help hundreds of designers ship pixel-perfect interfaces. Bernhard blends hands-on front-end development with design collaboration, contributing notable CSS fixes and component migrations to the popular open-source adobe/spectrum-css repository. His background spans early-stage startups to large enterprises, from growing social ecommerce at Luvocracy to evangelizing design systems at AppDirect. He’s particularly strong at turning visual design requirements into robust, accessible implementations and has built tooling for visual regression testing that influenced color and component consistency at scale.
7 years of coding experience
Github Skills (8)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
adobe/spectrum-css
Sep 2019 - Jan 2023
The standard CSS implementation of the Spectrum design language.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:141 reviews, 68 commits, 59 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Bernhard primarily focused on improving the CSS styling of various Spectrum UI components within the `adobe/spectrum-css` repository. Their commits addressed multiple issues related to layout and visual consistency, including text alignment, label positioning, and wrapping behavior in components like checkboxes, radio buttons, dropdown menus, and calendars. The contributions involved modifying CSS files to refine the design and enhance the user experience of these components. They also migrated components to use core tokens and added new features to action buttons.
cssdesign-system
bernhard-adobe/spectrum-css
Sep 2019 - Dec 2022
The standard CSS implementation of the Spectrum design language.
Contributions:13 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 3 months
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