Sales teams have Salesforce. Engineers have GitHub. But designers have always had slim pickings. Abstract, launching today, is a workflow platform and system of record built for designers to solve the debilitating frustrations of the design process. The company is targeting Sketch users out of the gates with a round from Cowboy Ventures in the bank and ambitions to accommodate the whole gamut of visual file types.
Design workflows at major companies are often more art than science. It’s common for key processes like approvals, versioning and cross-team communication to occur in Google Drive with numbered files accompanied by a long string of emails. Without a central repository for all things design, these ad hoc processes can rapidly spin out of control at scale.
Abstract is something of a…