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 […]