Present
Design EngineeratMUI
Building Base UI and helping teams craft and ship user interfaces at scale. Bridging component design and engineering across the design system.
DESIGN ENGINEER · MUI / BASE UI
Code + design + systems, and everything in between.
I'm Aarón García Hervás, a design engineer who lives in the seam between designers and developers. I build component libraries, design systems, and the tooling that lets teams ship interfaces at scale.
// NOWWhat I'm spending my attention on.
NOW
Design Engineer at MUI, focused on Base UI - a library of unstyled, accessible React components teams can build their own design systems on.
ONGOING
Contributing to Pigment CSS, MUI's zero-runtime CSS-in-JS engine, and thinking about how styling tools should feel for both designers and engineers.
ALWAYS
Writing and tinkering on CodePen about design engineering: CSS architecture, component APIs, and closing the gap between Figma and the DOM.
// CAREER
Before
UI EngineeratWhereby
Built and maintained the front-end and component library for a browser-based video platform used by people around the world.
// SELECTED WORKOpen source I build and contribute to.
Base UI
Unstyled, accessible React components for building high-quality design systems and web apps. My main focus at MUI.
ReactAccessibilityHeadless
Pigment CSS
Zero-runtime CSS-in-JS that extracts styles at build time - the styling layer behind the next generation of MUI.
CSS-in-JSBuild-timeDX
MUI
One of the most-used React UI libraries in the world. I work across components, theming, and the tooling around them.
Design systemOpen source
Writing & experiments
CodePen demos and notes on CSS architecture (ITCSS), component APIs, and the craft of design engineering.
CSSITCSSDemos
// ELSEWHEREI write and share about design engineering.