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Benjamin Humphrey

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I’m Benjamin Humphrey, a Designer at Atlassian in Sydney.

In the past I’ve been a co-founder of OMG! Ubuntu!, founder of The Ubuntu Manual Project, and Design Lead for delicious.com at AVOS.

I’ve also spoken about design at conferences & meetups, freelanced for a while, and competed in Startup Weekend. I’m the founder of UX Design Day.


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Inside Atlassian: seven steps for better retrospectives

Happy December, the time for retrospectives! The end of the year is a time for reflection. For our team, each member considers questions like: What went well? What accomplishments did I make? What do I want to improve on? What did I miss that I want to do next year? That’s right, December is our yearly retrospective! (That’s the cool agile term.) Retrospectives are the meetings held after a sprint, iteration, or release.


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Delighting our customers the moment they walk through the door

Every quarter, Atlassian holds an event called ShipIt. Essentially, the whole company stops work for 24 hours (usually a Thursday and Friday) to form teams and compete to build kickass products, plugins, or features. For ShipIt 25, Patrick Teen, Jason Sheehy, and I decided to tackle the visitor sign in app at reception here in […]


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Fix little things: Atlassian’s paper cuts project

At UX Australia 2013, Dan Saffer opened the conference with a talk about microinteractions. Essentially a microinteraction is something you’d find on littlebigdetails.com — an interaction that’s small, often overlooked, or even subconscious. Something that helps to enhance the core experience, reduce frustrations, and offer an opportunity for a bit of humanization or even humor in a product. […]