LinkedIn Dark Mode
Design leadership and direction
LinkedIn 2022
Building on our design refresh, which aimed to bring to life our diverse, warm and welcoming community, LinkedIn’s Design, Product, and Engineering teams came together over the past year to bring Dark Mode to our one billion members around the globe.
We took a thoughtful approach to the overall Dark Mode user experience, particularly accessibility considerations, to ensure all members can be productive and successful on our platform regardless of their abilities. Members want to stay informed, engage in an active community, and find their next opportunity irrespective of day or night. In addition, we wanted to meet members in their environment and reduce anxiety by providing a UI that adapts.
Within LinkedIn, we have many discrete teams who design and build for our consumer apps, and we had to devise a plan to coordinate across all of them to roll this out consistently and holistically. My team coordinated and ran sprints across the working teams and semantically updated over 10,000 color usages to deliver a cohesive Dark Mode experience across the entire consumer product.
