Howdy
I’m Alessandro Mingione, a designer from Rome, Italy, living in Oakland, California.
I’m a design generalist at heart. I’ve been designing things for other people since my early teens. Over the years I experimented with illustration, editorial design, brand design, web design, type design and, for the past decade, interaction design.
Today I design at Tailscale, where we are building peer-to-peer networking tools that dramatically lower the bar for creating secure, quiet, personal internets. Here I’ve touched everything from our website and design system, to end to end workflows that span mobile, desktop, and web apps, crafting some of our most clicked buttons and beloved rectangles.
In a previous life I led Design for the Foundry data governance product area at Palantir, where I spent a lot of calories and cortisol trying to make RBAC intelligible in a multi-tenant environment. There I also contributed to Blueprint, one of the first composable, strictly-typed design systems. Blueprint proved popular with anyone building early web apps in React: from internal teams at Fortune 500 companies, to startups prototyping data-dense interfaces, to Russian hackers bootstrapping ransomware software.
Outside of work you may find me hunting vintage americana, forest bathing in the redwoods, fly fishing for native trout, writing wikipedia articles, or listening to hard bop and funky jazz.