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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Team stories

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