Howdy! I’m Alessandro Mingione, a designer from Rome, Italy, living in Oakland, California.
I’m a design generalist at heart: I started out in my early teens by creating logos, identities, and websites, then studied editorial and type design, and for the past decade I've made my livelihood practicing interaction design.
Today I design at Tailscale, where we’re building peer-to-peer networking tools that dramatically lower the barrier for self-hosting and help move the internet toward a more personal, private, and decentralized future. 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 data governance group at Palantir, where I spent a lot of calories and cortisol trying to make sure only the right people would get access to only the required data. 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, or listening to hard bop and funky jazz.