From themework to teamwork at Atlassian - Jade Jiang, Maria Christley, Lewis Healey (Config 2023)

Double feature Pass the ball: building products as a team sport Speaker: Jade Jiang – Product Designer, Atlassian Modern software teams know that shipping meaningful work needs tight teamwork. However, different disciplines and crafts don’t collaborate by default. Jade Jiang, Product Designer at Atlassian, will dive into the world of designers and developers, sharing research findings from both roles, peppered with anecdotes from her own experiences. She'll emphasize that design and development is not a relay race, it’s a team sport. This talk takes you behind the scenes at Atlassian, sharing secrets of how developers and designers work together across tools like Figma and Jira. Learn ways of working that you can apply in your own teams to deliver impactful work to users—and tips on how teamwork makes the dream work. Unleashing designer productivity at scale - a design system’s evolution Speakers: Maria Christley – Head of Design, UI Platform, Atlassian Lewis Healey – Senior Product Designer, Design Systems, Atlassian Over the past 2 years the Atlassian Design System team have been reimagining how their design system needs to evolve to be a force multiplier for good - good for our own team, good for our designers and developers and good for our customers. In this talk, Maria and Lewis share their journey towards unlocking a thriving design system that scales with hyper-growth. They’ll take you through the team’s transformative process of reinventing their team, their strategies and core foundations, placing a strong emphasis on the “maker experience” through effective tooling. Discover how Figma (and variables) have been the conduit for productivity, revolutionizing the way Atlassian ships quality user interfaces at enterprise scale. Please visit https://config.figma.com/video-on-dem... to view ASL version of this Config 2023 session. Figma is free to use. Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3msp0OV ____________________________________________________ Find us on ⬇️ Twitter:   / figma   Instagram:   / figma   LinkedIn:   / figma   Figma forum: https://forum.figma.com/ ____________________________________________________ #Figma #Config #FigJam #Tutorial #NothingGreatIsMadeAlone #design #tips #DesignSystems #Config2023