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Github for designers. We automatically keep track of revisions of…
Key people at Pixelapse.
Pixelapse was founded in 2011 by Min Ming Lo (Co-founder) and Shravan Reddy (Founder).
Pixelapse is the best place to share designs and work together. We build tools to improve the design process and make collaboration easier. Pixelapse simplifies version control and makes it accessible for designers to share and discuss their work with their friends, colleagues and the world.
Pixelapse was founded in 2011 by Min Ming Lo (Co-founder) and Shravan Reddy (Founder).
Pixelapse was a collaborative design platform that functioned like a "GitHub for designers," providing version control, project management, and review tools tailored for creative workflows. It enabled designers to automatically track revisions, organize files, collect feedback, and collaborate efficiently across multiple file formats, especially Adobe Creative Suite files. Pixelapse served designers and creative teams by solving the problem of chaotic file versioning and difficult designer-developer collaboration, offering features like file synchronization, visual version comparisons, commenting, and milestone flagging to streamline design iteration and feedback[1][2][5].
Founded by Min Ming and Shravan (with backgrounds in design and development), Pixelapse emerged from their shared frustration with the lack of structured collaboration tools for designers akin to those programmers had with Git and SVN. The idea originated from experiences at Google and software development environments where managing design assets was cumbersome and error-prone. After several years of independent operation and product development, Pixelapse was acquired by Dropbox in early 2015. Post-acquisition, Dropbox integrated Pixelapse’s core features—such as version history, file annotations, and Adobe file previews—into its platform, leading to Pixelapse’s standalone service being deprecated in 2016[2][3][6][7].
Pixelapse addressed a significant gap in the design and creative industry by bringing structured version control and collaboration tools similar to those used by software developers. This was timely as design teams increasingly worked in distributed and cross-functional environments requiring better asset management and feedback loops. The acquisition by Dropbox reflected broader market forces where cloud storage providers sought to embed specialized productivity features to serve creative professionals better. Pixelapse’s technology helped push the evolution of cloud collaboration platforms toward richer support for complex design workflows, influencing how creative teams manage and share digital assets[2][4].
Although Pixelapse as a standalone product was sunsetted in 2016, its vision and technology live on within Dropbox’s ecosystem, which continues to enhance design collaboration capabilities. Future trends shaping this space include deeper integration of version control with design tools, AI-assisted asset management, and more seamless designer-developer workflows. Dropbox’s ongoing investment in these areas suggests Pixelapse’s foundational ideas will persist and evolve, further bridging gaps between creative and technical teams in the digital product lifecycle[3][7].
In summary, Pixelapse pioneered a GitHub-like approach for designers, solving critical collaboration and versioning challenges, and its legacy continues through Dropbox’s expanded creative collaboration features.
Key people at Pixelapse.
