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Designing for the beautiful mess of modern work
Teamwork is messy and AI adds to it. Join Atlassian and Figma's Design Chiefs to see how human+AI design turns friction into a creative edge. Learn to eliminate busywork, protect human agency, and empower your team to build their best work.May 21, 2026
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Design blogs
Teaching AI to speak our design language
AI tools are only as good as the context they get. We restructured the Atlassian Design System into machine-readable schemas so AI agents can build UI that actually follows our design language, faster and cheaper.Jun 4, 2026
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How Content Assistant raised the design quality bar without slowing us down
What happens when you give every team an AI agent trained on your content standards? Drafting drops from hours to minutes and quality actually goes up.Jun 2, 2026
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Atlassian Design System: Building the context engine for the AI era
Design systems aren't just about consistent UI anymore. They're strategic capabilities that harness design intent and accelerate innovation. Here's how the Atlassian Design System is evolving into a full-stack context engine for an AI-native future.May 29, 2026
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Designing AI products you can depend on
Most AI products nail the demo but fail in daily work. The problem isn't the model — it's the design. Here's what it actually takes to build AI that people depend on when the stakes are real.May 5, 2026
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Design Technologists: The role that turns creativity into code
Atlassian's Design Technologists bridge design and engineering by building interactive, AI-powered prototypes that help teams validate ideas faster, make better decisions, and ship products with higher confidence—before costly development begins.4 min read·May 5, 2026
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Leadership talks
Designing for the beautiful mess of modern work
Teamwork is messy and AI adds to it. Join Atlassian and Figma's Design Chiefs to see how human+AI design turns friction into a creative edge. Learn to eliminate busywork, protect human agency, and empower your team to build their best work.May 21, 2026
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Live interview with Charlie Sutton from Team '26
Our Chief Design Officer Charlie Sutton explains how redesigning work alongside AI agents — not just adding AI to products — is the real challenge, from optimizing design systems for agent consumption to building trust through Rovo's reasoning.May 20, 2026
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The trick to AI prototyping with your design system
Learn how to use AI to prototype with Lewis and Kylor from the Atlassian Design System team.52 min·Jan 3, 2026
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Being a Design Technologist in the AI era
We'll unpack what our design technologists do, and explore how their skills can be applied.55 min·Dec 4, 2025
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Deep dive into Atlassian’s Figma file
Explore how our designer organizes their Figma file, the dev handoff process at Atlassian, and more.29 min·Nov 14, 2025
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Team stories
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