Adobe integrates live components across Photoshop and Illustrator for collaborative design

Design · 4 min read

The new live components feature allows teams to create central UI and brand elements in a shared Creative Cloud Library that update in real-time across Photoshop, Illustrator, and cloud documents. Edits to a master component push as incremental updates, preserving overrides in child instances and reducing versioning conflicts.

Adobe also improved the comments and review overlay so stakeholders can attach reference notes to specific components and request variant approvals. Designers can lock properties to prevent unintended global changes and maintain local flexibility for layout-specific overrides.

Integration with design systems is tighter: Adobe published converters that translate Figma components and tokens into live components, easing migration for teams that run mixed tooling. The company pitched the update as a bridge for production design workflows that need both pixel-level control and system-scale consistency.