Chromatic

Chromatic's Accessibility Testing & Dashboard are now live – and available for free until September 8! Traditional tools end up bogging you down because they’re too noisy and run too late in the development process. So we built something different. Our approach: 🧩 Component-level testing: use your existing Storybook stories quickly find & fix issues ⚡ CI-based regression checks: ship fast without accidentally adding new accessibility issues 📊 Real-time dashboard to track progress and prioritize fixes Read the full announcement → https://hubs.li/Q03wfX9y0

We cut our total accessibility violations by over 66% in the last 6 weeks. Here's how: Over the years, we accrued a11y debt because it was everyone and no one's responsibility. Sure, we did VPATs but they were out of date the moment they were finished. It was only when we considered a11y a pipeline and not a checklist that things actually changed. We were able to block merging regressions and finally had visibility into the scope of the issues. Comment below for our exact technical approach. We went from +17,000 to 6,579.

Our team fixed over 10,000 accessibility violations in the last two months by dogfooding Chromatic's own accessibility features. This is the only graph where down and to the right is incredible.

Stoked to talk about accessibility pipelines with a room of web infra folks tomorrow. In Boston? Let's meet! Storybook » SquiggleConf - A Conference for Excellent Web Dev Tooling

Storybook has become a go-to tool in every design system team’s toolkit. This week, we sat down with Dominic Nguyen, the co-founder of Storybook and Chromatic, to dive into his journey and explore what the future of AI and design systems might look like. https://lnkd.in/eYHhTwBm #uxengineer #storybook #designsystem

We've been researching what AI means for Storybook, and how we can improve your experience with agents when working on UI and stories. We have an experimental MCP addon ready that we'd love for you to try out: https://hubs.li/Q03GXn2c0 It's still early, and we plan to share our research results with y'all soon, but if you're just eager to play around with some of our results, please check it out!

Accessibility often lags behind because testing doesn’t match how we build software. Why? - Audits live outside the dev workflow - Page-level tests create noise - CI/CD gets blocked by a ton of old issues Join me at SquiggleConf to build an accessibility pipeline using Storybook that catches accessibility issues at the root: components.

On Thursday, TJ Pitre — Founder & CEO of Southleft and an expert in AI-powered design systems — will show what happens when you do give AI your design system: ⚡ Quality UI from the first prompt 🧩 Storybook + MCP + Claude workflows 🚀 Faster prototyping without endless re-prompts Don’t miss real DS-aware AI demos + lessons learned from someone who’s built DS for Caterpillar, Nasdaq, and PetSmart. 📅 Webinar is tomorrow — save your spot now! 🔗 Register here: https://hubs.li/Q03FmZHR0

AI can spin up UI fast. The problem? It doesn’t know your design system. That’s why the outputs look fine at first glance—but break the moment you compare them to production. What happens when you do give AI your design system? 👉 You get quality UI without an avalanche of follow-up prompts. Join us live with TJ Pitre, Founder & CEO of Southleft, and expert in AI-Powered Design Systems, to show what happens when you give LLMs the missing ingredient: your design system. We’ll show how to: ⚡ Connect Storybook + MCP + Claude 🧩 Generate UI from your actual components 🚀 Prototype faster without endless re-prompts 📅 Save your spot → https://hubs.li/Q03DC6Zg0

Testing your frontend isn’t just writing tests. It’s figuring out which tests are worth your time—and which are slowing you down. Our Frontend Testing Guide breaks down how top engineering teams: ✅ Decide what to test at the component, UI, and flow level ✅ Catch functional and visual bugs before they hit prod ✅ Avoid brittle E2E suites that collapse under change If you’ve ever felt your test suite was too slow, too flaky, or missing the real bugs, this will help you fix it. 📚 Read the guide → https://hubs.li/Q03CFPQv0