Introducing the Creative Cloud Developer Champion Program

We’re rewarding outstanding members of our developer community: Find out what it takes to be a champion and nominate one today!

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If you develop plugins, scripts, or extensions for Creative Cloud products, or add-ons for Adobe Express specifically, chances are that somewhere along your journey you got help from a friendly developer in a forum, or you found an extremely useful tool or library. Maybe you read a book or took an online course that changed your life.

To celebrate those who go above and beyond to improve experiences for the Creative Cloud and Adobe Express developer communities, we recently launched the Creative Cloud Developer Champion program.

By partnering with outstanding members of our developer community we’re able to scale their efforts and help more devs grow their skills and be more successful. Let’s take a look at how the program works and how you too can become a Developer Champion.

What do Developer Champions do?

Developers Champions are Adobe Community Experts, who share their product expertise, have a passion for fostering creativity, support their peers, and solve problems. That may mean leveraging CEP and now UXP (our more modern extensibility platform for Photoshop, InDesign, and soon Premiere Pro) to build plugins, write scripts, and create developer tools. Increasingly though, it means building add-ons and integrations for Adobe Express to serve a global and fast-growing creative community, especially business users that range from solopreneurs and small teams to the largest enterprise customers. Adobe Express is the quick and easy create-anything app that leverages the best of Adobe’s digital imaging, design, and video capabilities.

Developer Champions also inspire and teach other developers by sharing their own scripts and code snippets or even build tools that simplify the development process for others.

Things developers may be doing that qualify them to be a Developer Champion include:

Benefits of being a Developer Champion

In return for their efforts, Developer Champions receive:

Meet the 2024 Developer Champions

︎L-R top row: Justin, Ali, Davide, Eugen. L-R bottom row: Prasanta, Tom, Zuri, Walter

︎L-R top row: Justin, Ali, Davide, Eugen. L-R bottom row: Prasanta, Tom, Zuri, Walter

“Adobe’s Developer Champion program is a great way for developers to be rewarded for their community contributions and have closer access to Adobe team members for future opportunities that are mutually beneficial. I’m excited to be a part of this program and look forward to its future!” — Justin Taylor

“Being named a Developer Champion was a nice surprise, and it’s great to be seen and recognized by Adobe. A real perk that helped me recently was ‘expedited review’ when submitting a plugin. That was a big benefit for me.”

— Eugen Pflüger

Next, Zuri will invite you to join them on their journey to rebuild their successful Lorem Ipsum UXP plugin for Adobe Express, which should help all UXP developers with a similar task. You can find the dates for the live streaming here: https://developer.adobe.com/developers-live

“It’s almost unbelievable the amount of contribution Zuri has made to UXP while pursuing their studies. They can truly wear multiple hats! I can do nothing but admire the passion, self-starter attitude, and out-of-the-box thinking that Zuri has.” — Kerri Shotts, Group Product Manager at Adobe

Become a Developer Champion

How do you support the developer community? Did you see yourself as you read through the developer profiles? Do you already help other developers, share your expertise, scripts, or even build developer tools or run meetups? Or would you like to start? Then you should be our next Developer Champion for 2025.

New Developer Champions may be nominated by Adobe, the community, or they can nominate themselves. Current Champions and Community Experts will have the opportunity to vote for nominees starting in 2025.

All Developer Champions automatically become Community Experts, if they are not already an Expert.

Once in the program, Champions take on challenges in the Developer Corner, and start (or continue) creating developer-specific tools, articles, and social posts.

So, if we’ve piqued your interest and you’d like to become a Developer Champion, we have one final tip from 2024 Developer Champion Eugen Pflüger: “Be present. Show up. Discuss and try to help others. Join the Express Discord channel for Adobe Express add-on developers. Take part in the office hours. Just become a part of the (really nice and friendly) community.”

Do you know someone who is a good fit for our program, or are you interested in joining it yourself? Nominate a Developer Champion, learn more about how the program works, and to stay up to date with the latest developer news, subscribe to our Creative Cloud Developer Newsletter.

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