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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
How Motion Vocabulary Improves Prompt Engineering
Your animation skills are secretly a prompting superpower — motion vocabulary helps you direct AI behavior, not just request outputs.Jul 21, 2026
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Designing better artifacts for Dia Browser
In a world of cheap AI-generated everything, restraint is the differentiator. Here's how Dia Browser proved it.Jul 10, 2026
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Designing an expression for the Atlassian Teamwork Graph
Making the invisible visible — how we gave Atlassian's Teamwork Graph a living, breathing expression.Jul 10, 2026
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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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Leadership talks
Ready for the world ft. Vicki Tan | Config 2026
Principal Product designer Vicki Tan shares how Figma gave her the courage to create an illustrated book—proving belief in your tools is all you need.Jul 7, 2026
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How structured thinking gives your AI superpowers ft. Carola Pescio Canale | Config 2026
How structured design processes turn AI from a creative aid into a genuine collaborator.Jul 7, 2026
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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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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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