We’re passionate about creativity — especially yours — and we know that together we can make amazing things. We want to empower you to express yourself creatively and to build experiences that transform the lives of millions of creatives.

That’s why we established the Adobe Fund for Design. With Adobe Express, we are on a mission to support talented individuals, emerging teams and entrepreneurs who are pushing the boundaries of existing apps and workflows.

The fund is here to support developers to build on the Adobe Express platform and grow our thriving and interconnected developer ecosystem.

Ideal Candidates:

✅ Are interested in building add-ons for Adobe Express (also known as plugins, extensions or integrations in other products) within the next 1-2 months

✅ Have new ideas for Adobe Express Add-ons that will help the creative community, focused on the priority use cases listed below

Import Images

• Import bitmap images for use in Adobe Express Design, either from a browsable library or through generating assets from user input in your add-on
• Express users are interested in a wide variety of styles of illustrations, photos, backgrounds, icons, and other flat-image assets.

Export

• Export the user’s design for use in email communication, for instance an email advertisement, newsletter, or event invitation, likely by converting their design to HTML.
• Adobe Express is popular among marketing teams who want to add expressivity to their email campaigns, but they need help completing their workflow.

AI Guidance

• Your add-on analyzes an Adobe Express page or document and provides feedback to the user to improve their design, for instance suggesting font pairings, color combinations, layout changes, and more
• Since Adobe Express is often used for marketing material and social media posts, users are eager to optimize their design to better reach and resonate with their audience.

Accessibility

• Your add-on analyzes an Adobe Express page or document and provides feedback to the user to make their design more accessible
• Express users need help checking color contrast, readability, and other elements of the design for compliance with standard web accessibility guidelines.

Presentations & Docs

• Check spelling and grammar, find and replace text, or capture screen recordings of presentations with your add-ons.
• Users creating presentations and documents in Adobe Express need to ensure their spelling and grammar is correct, quickly make changes to text in bulk, and share screen recordings with stakeholders and collaborators.