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Hi there,

Seen the new Next Experience UI yet? A "next generation, intuitive, personalized experience to drive productivity, improve engagement, and surface insights across the Now Platform." It will take a bit to get used to, though it's definitely a nice stap forward!

Playing around on my Personal Developer Instance, I came across something new with the Next Experience UI. Ok, it's not shocking, though let's just share... an out-of-the-box Dark Theme!

Out-of-the-box look

The out-of-the-box homepage on a San Diego instance with Next Experience UI enabled, looks something like below.

Enable Theme preference

Pre-San Diego / Next Experience, we are used to changing a Theme through the user settings. On a fresh San Diego instance, you'll notice that Theme is not an option under the Preferences. So how do we get our hands on the Dark Theme?

1. Update System Property "glide.ui.polaris.dark_themes_enabled", update the value to "true".

1. Refresh your browser, top right click on your User icon and select "Preferences" from the menu.

1. "Theme" should now be visible to select. On the next screen shown you can select the Dark Theme.

Result

After refreshing your browser, the homepage looks something like below.

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And that's it. Hope you like it. If any questions or remarks, let me know!

Kind regards,

Mar k Roethof

ServiceNow Technical Platform Architect @ Eraneous

3x ServiceNow Developer MVP

3x ServiceNow Community MVP

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