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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
Introducing Figma Motion: Your canvas now has a timeline
Atlassian designers are using Figma Motion to turn animation from a specialist handoff into a system capability—with AI-guided creation on the timeline and Dev Mode for seamless engineering collaboration.Jun 24, 2026
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Atlassian’s DESIGN.md is here: what we learned testing portable design context in practice
We tested Google's DESIGN.md format against our MCP server and AI skills to see where a single portable markdown file fits in your design system tooling. Here's what we learned.Jun 16, 2026
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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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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 CDO Charlie Sutton explains how redesigning work alongside AI agents — not just adding AI to products — is the real challenge.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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