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Alastair Simpson

Head of Design, Cloud Products

Alastair is a product design manager, leader, and mentor. He loves working with multi-disciplinary teams to solve complex business and interaction design challenges. He currently leads a cross-geo design team at Atlassian across a portfolio of our cloud Products and Platforms; Trello, Confluence, Platform, Design System, Ecosystem and Growth. He also owns a rather large sneaker collection.

The one critical skill most designers overlook

They spend a lot of time learning about the newest tools or debating the best interaction design patterns. But they're missing out on this skill.

By Alastair Simpson

In Productivity

Illustration of an organized daily schedule

When meetings attack! (Or, how to reclaim your daily schedule)

Use this bit of calendar alchemy to reclaim your daily schedule.

By Alastair Simpson

In Productivity

Arrows illustration for agile development

An agile design prototype is worth a thousand user stories

To prototype, or not to prototype? All web and mobile app experiences are becoming highly immersive. Gone are the days...

By Alastair Simpson

In Agile