Mike Aparicio

Peruvian Idol

Speaking

I love chatting about all things design systems and CSS. I'm available to speak on your podcast, stream or at your conference. Get in touch!

Never Style Again

Wireframe Live | May 15, 2026

Donnie D'Amato and I talked about CSS in design systems and how we contend with AI as design system practitioners.

Scaling CSS in Design Systems

Code & Pixels | August 6, 2024

I chatted with Kelly and Adekunle about CSS and design systems.

Build a Design System with CSS

Learn with Jason | June 6, 2024

I joined Jason Lengstorf to talk about CSS in design systems. We imagined what my first week of a design systems engineer at LWJ might look like, building a CSS framework and documentation site to support a redesigned show page on Jason's website.

Easy Site Theming with Design Tokens

Frontend Horse | November 10, 2021

I returned to Frontend Horse for the Halloween Spooktacular, where Alex Trost and I made a Halloween theme for the Frontend Horse website in 15 minutes using only design tokens.

Build Your Own Design System

Some Antics | October 28, 2021

Ben Myers and I talked about using Hacktober as an opportunity to get into design systems while building a small system ourselves.

Let's Make a Design System

Frontend Horse | August 18, 2021

I built a design system for Frontend Horse and talked to Alex Trost about the process.

Templating: Eleventy's Superpower

THE Eleventy Meetup | July 17, 2021

I gave a talk at the inaugural Eleventy Meetup where I demonstrated how to create an Eleventy site in ~10 minutes.