How Extensibility, Express, and AI will transform InDesign Workflows in 2024

In this session, Max Dunn shares the new features of InDesign 2024, and will introduce Adobe Express, exploring the many ways that Express and AI tools such as Adobe Firefly can both interoperate with, and augment, InDesign workflows.

He will discuss the Unified eXtensibility Platform or UXP. This significant new technology took a lot of brilliant people a long time to implement, and brings InDesign’s extensibility into the modern age, using the latest JavaScript along with REACT support and debugging tools.

Adobe Express—Adobe’s answer to Canva—has also been blessed with sophisticated new extensibility tools (as well as AI features based on Adobe Firefly). There are two Express SDKs. The Add-in SDK lets you add features to Express. The Embed SDK lets you include Express in your applications.

Now developers can take Adobe’s creative tools to new levels. For instance, Max’s company, Silicon Publishing, has connected Express to its InDesign-based document editor. This means that users can now edit a document in a web browser, shell out to Express to create (or process) content, and add it back to the document, saving it to InDesign.

In delving into the new creative capabilities made possible by Adobe Express and Adobe Firefly, Max will also discuss AI and how Adobe’s offerings combine to empower modern publishing workflows. Learn how to choose between InDesign and Express, as well as how to use the two applications together, integrating generative AI from Adobe and others to best advantage in InDesign-centric publishing processes.