# Dominic Nguyen

> Dominic Nguyen is the co-founder of Chromatic, the company behind Storybook - the open source workshop used by tens of thousands of frontend teams including Airbnb, Microsoft, IBM and Shopify to build UI components in isolation. A designer by training, he turned a developer tool with a devoted community into a self-sustaining business by selling visual testing and review services that fund the open source project itself. His focus now is what AI means for design systems, including Storybook's Model Context Protocol work.

- **Role:** Founder & CXO at Chromatic
- **Organizations:** Chromatic, Storybook, Percolate Studio, Meteor, Apollo GraphQL, Yummly
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** BA, Practice of Art, University of California, Berkeley
- **Known for:** Co-founded Chromatic, the company behind Storybook, the most popular tool for building UI components in isolation, Helped grow Storybook into a tool used by tens of thousands of companies including Airbnb, Microsoft, IBM and Shopify, Built a self-sustaining open source model where commercial visual testing services fund full-time maintainers

## Career timeline

- **2009** — Earned a BA in Practice of Art from UC Berkeley
- **2012** — Co-founded Percolate Studio, a web app consulting studio, with future Chromatic co-founders
- **2010s** — Worked in product design at Meteor, one of the first full-stack JavaScript frameworks, and at Yummly and Apollo GraphQL
- **2017** — Co-founded Chromatic with Zoltan Olah and Tom Coleman, building a business around the Storybook open source project
- **2022** — Chromatic raised a Series A round
- **2026** — Leading work on Storybook MCP, connecting design systems to AI-driven development

## Achievements

- Co-founded Chromatic, the company behind Storybook, the most popular tool for building UI components in isolation
- Helped grow Storybook into a tool used by tens of thousands of companies including Airbnb, Microsoft, IBM and Shopify
- Built a self-sustaining open source model where commercial visual testing services fund full-time maintainers
- Grew Chromatic to a multi-million-dollar revenue business with a team of roughly 50-68 people

## Latest updates

- **2026** — Featured in discussions of Storybook MCP, demonstrating AI generating features from existing design-system components and surfacing real accessibility issues through Storybook's testing.

## Links

- Website: https://www.chromatic.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/domyen/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/domyen
- GitHub: https://github.com/domyen

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Last updated: 2026-06-12