On March 30, 2020, we enabled folks to opt into a beta dark mode on Stack Overflow. Let’s talk about the work that went into it. Dark mode opt-in bannerI’m Aaron Shekey, Stack Overflow’s principal product designer on design systems. I help design all the interface components that get assembled into new features. First, a bit of irony. I don’t actually prefer dark user interfaces. I often find the
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