Design Guidelines 2.1 – Our design direction
The Atlassian Design Guidelines (ADG) has released version 1.5, 2.0 in the last few months. We were very busy working on these milestones that we didn’t announce them until now. Today we released version 2.1. Releasing 2.0 and 2.1 was a big step forward for the design team and the design culture at Atlassian. The guidelines we have released […]
Design Guidelines 1.4 Released
The Atlassian Design Guidelines (ADG) has an exciting new release. We’ve polished some old things, created some new things and have made the whole experience of using our guidelines even better. What’s in the release? Forms The old forms page was heavily visited but not very helpful. We’ve overhauled the forms page making it more robust and easier to use. […]
ADG 1.3 is here, with new colors and charts
The Atlassian Design Guidelines (ADG) have been a little quiet since we last published an update back in July 2013. The design team has been working on a lot of new things for our customers and some of those are now available in this release of the ADG. What’s in the release Color palette We’ve tweaked the primary palette yellow […]
HackHouse 2014 – Being a mentor
This post is part of a series on Atlassian HackHouse 2014, where graduate developers spend a week with Atlassian mentors hacking code and learning about the world of software development. This week we’ve taken our 18 new grads down to two beach houses on Sydney’s South Coast to learn the ropes from four Atlassian mentors. The […]
Double feature – AUI 5.2 and Design Guidelines 1.2 released
Since day one the Atlassian Design Guidelines (ADG) has been built using the Atlassian User Interface (AUI) library. With each release, we’ve continued to shorten the gap between design and development but found we still weren’t doing enough to close the loop for developers. Today we’ve teamed up and coordinated a joint release to make […]
How to make an icon font – the 8 step guide
Follow this how-to guide by an Atlassian designer to make a single icon font for the Atlassian products. [cta] The Atlassian design team has been making some big changes to our products over the last 12 months. We’re achieving this with the help of the Atlassian Design Guidelines (ADG). In a separate post I’ve elaborated […]
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 […]
How we made the Atlassian Design Guidelines
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 […]