TLDR; Chromatic is a build system for managing cross-platform design systems using design tokens. Unlike similar tools, it supports expressive design tokens and theming. Design is an essential ingredient to successful software products. But design at scale across many project and many platforms (web, iOS, Android, desktop) is a huge…

How to use CSS to add dark mode to your website — When using the dark mode of macOS 10.14 or Windows 10, visiting a website with a light UI can be a jarring experience. Safari Technology Preview 68 introduces a new CSS media query that gives the option for websites to adjust their appearance based on user preferences. …

Introducing “Share to Slack” from Creative Cloud — At Adobe, we’re big fans of Slack. We use it all the time amongst ourselves to share a mockup of the next great creative app we’re working on (shh… it’s a secret) or something amazing we found created by one of the 5 million subscribers to Creative Cloud. Slack makes…

Four powerful words to get creative teams to do their best work. — “He’s coming”, Bertrand says, sticking his head into the conference room. Bertrand is our lookout. When he saw Avie and Steve walking jauntily at the end of the long corridor connecting Infinite Loop One and Infinite Loop Two, he gave us the warning. Steve has to be escorted everywhere on…

How Adobe CreativeSync Will Save Your Assets Design. It’s at the heart of the most successful companies. As Thomas Watson Jr. said, “Good design is good business.” Great design and creative thinking are more valued than ever before. That’s good news for creatives everywhere but it also means the pressure is on to generate great ideas, solve…