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Design Guidelines 1.1 – Making Your Life Easier

The Atlassian Design Guidelines (ADG) is a public best practice guide for how to design all things Atlassian. As well as being a sneak peek into our inner workings, these are also our best practices for designing products and add-ons that behave consistently for our users. Today, we released Atlassian Design Guidelines 1.1. Our design team has been working for the last couple of months on precision and beauty for altogether new patterns and updates to existing ones. The results will give you a

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Meet Ross, JIRA’s Lead Designer (2/2)

This is a second in a two part series about the JIRA 6 re-design with Ross Chaldecott.  In our first part we talked about Ross' design approach.  We will continue with Ross about the implementation of the Atlassian Design Guidelines inside of JIRA.  First, let's take a closer look at the beginnings of ADG with Ross in Sydney before jumping into how ADG shaped the release of JIRA 6.   JIRA 6: Implementing the ADG Q: What part of JIRA was the most difficult to update to use ADG? 

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Meet Ross, JIRA’s Lead Designer (1/2)

JIRA 6 is the biggest release to modernize JIRA ever. We've updated everything from typography, icons, layouts to make JIRA look and feel awesome. I got a few moments to catch up with Ross Chaldecott, the lead designer on the JIRA program to see how this transformation took place. In this two part series we will focus on the design approach and delivery during the JIRA 6 release. JIRA 6: The Design Approach Q: How does the product re-design process begin? A: Millions of people

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JIRA 6: Auto look and feel

JIRA 6 is the biggest release of JIRA in three years. One of the big changes is the introduction of the Atlassian Design Guidelines (ADG). The biggest benefit of this improvement is a consistent look and feel across JIRA as well as other Atlassian applications that support ADG, including Confluence and Stash. All three applications use similar design and workflow patterns that users can follow within and between applications. In addition, JIRA has a new look and feel configurator that makes it

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How we made the Atlassian Design Guidelines

  • By Matt Bond, Interaction Designer, Stash
  • On March 27, 2013
This post is part of a blog series on how we approach design at Atlassian. Find the other posts in this series under the Design tag. We internally released the new product design language in June 2012. Our design team had worked hard on a unified design vision for our products. What we hadn't worked out was how we'd be able to communicate all the decisions we'd made to the wider company and add-on developers for implementation across our product suite. We searched for similar situations

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The tell-all tale of Bitbucket’s redesign

Redesigning an entire application is a formidable undertaking with many risks and possibilities for failure. Brian Nguyen, one of our developers, already covered the challenges of Bitbucket's redesign from a technical standpoint. Now, I'd like to share some of the challenges from the design angle, along with how we eventually overcame them.

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