Bernhard Schmidt

• Primary engineer managing 50+ automated UI-kits / sticker sheets for our Spectrum SVG system, Spectrums first code-based implementations to automate and scale our UI components, providing Adobe’s most comprehensive UI collection in variants, scale, themes and systems.
• Codebase is implemented in the XD and Figma plugin, crucial to enable hundreds of designers at Adobe to craft pixel perfect layouts with real-world components.
• Extensively tested new color palettes across all of Spectrum’s themes with the help of my implemented visual regression tool in the SVG-Generator project.
• Worked closely together with our Spectrum designers in developing and testing our new UI components, went through countless design iterations and improvements.
• Contributed accessible and scalable front-end code to a various component implementations and migrations in Spectrum-CSS, powering the visual appearance for Adobe’s popular open-source libraries Spectrum React and Spectrum Web Components.
• Built, maintained the Spectrum Icons page, the most visited feature page on our design system website, enabling thousands of designers to search and place our icons from our icon system.
• Implemented and iterated second most visited feature page: Color Palette, allowing for a code based representation of Spectrums color system, enabling our designers and engineers to quickly gain access to our up-to-date palettes.

I am a UI / UX Engineer specialized in front-end development and design systems. I thrive in an agile environment where I can collaborate with others on both design and development. I have worked with early stage startups as well as larger established companies.

I recently worked for about 4 year at Adobe.

Bachelor of Engineering in Media Technology.

• Classes in computer science, software & electrical engineering, business, e-commerce, video/audio technology and journalism.
• Thesis: Design and development of social user profiles, which led to Wikia's current user profiles.