Company
Date Published
Author
Robin Rendle
Word count
2230
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Sentry`, a company that provides software development tools, recently implemented dark mode in their application. The implementation was part of their Hack Week project and involved several stages, including cleaning up color inconsistencies, designing the color system, creating aliases and refactoring components, and adding design elements to Figma. The process took weeks but resulted in a consistent and cohesive color palette for both light and dark modes, improving the overall user experience and making it easier for engineers to build new components without having to ask designers about colors. By implementing dark mode, Sentry was able to identify and refactor "Radioactive code" - poorly written code that was causing problems in their codebase - and improve the consistency of their design system, making it easier to maintain and update their application in the future.