⚒️ How we built Atlassian Design System CLI Sharing a great deep dive from Kylor Hall on our new Atlassian Design System CLI. It exemplifies how we build and stress test with the same considerations that our customers have for their own AI stacks. Token efficiency, MCP vs. CLI decision paths, evaluation loops - all of these are done with a ton of rigour. This takes deep collaboration between engineers, designers and agents over many months. Read more at: Bonus - in the spirit of building in public - anyone can use our ADS MCP and ADS CLI. Collectively, they provide 90% plus coverage of what is on

Had a wonderful week in Sydney with our DevAI Design team. We're heads down building new experiences to help people ship faster and at high quality. Everyone on this team codes and ships PRs, including me (though mine are way lower!).

This week I had the pleasure of sharing the floor with Joshua Orr for The Onset’s Build / 01. When Tania Graham-Brown and I talked about this, we agreed everyone is tired of panels discussing the same thing. Designers in leadership roles should show proof of work. I had the pleasure of showing the work of @Lewishealey, Sheree Barratt, and many other folks working on Protobox, a collaborative prototyping environment where designers and see and contribute to prototypes across various tools. My demo deviated from the use case but built on the same foundation: Personal software’s proximity of work. At @Atlassian, we believe the Teamwork Graph is the differentiator for companies, teams, and individuals. As someone who works with dozens of local agents, the majority of my workflow is on the desktop. My solution? I built my own app in Swift. The goal is not going lone wolf, but a place where I can focus across my tools. Using Teamwork Graph and Atlassian Design System, I made my own software, curating the way I work best. The app includes an attention system, my live Kanban board from Trello. Another problem I was looking to solve is visibility of my local agent sessions. I shared how I built a clone of Command & Conquer, a beloved Real-Time Strategy game from my childhood. What felt like an unserious product gave me insight on what different agent architectures looked like and how I could apply it to work. So I built it in my app; a personal workbench made just for me. This allows me to collaborate faster with people because the proximity of work has more reach through the Teamwork Graph while giving me the focus I need. Sydney, it’s always a pleasure to spend time with the wonderful designers here.

🏖️ Forget the plywood-framed podcast studio - beach interviews could be an Australian design institution! It was great to hear Tania Graham-Brown and @davidhoang talk about design questions that are global - and still influenced by what is special about places on both sides of the Pacific.

AI usage and productivity is up, yet only 6% of executives point to real ROI. Everyone is speeding up but not in the same direction. It's the "fragmentation tax". @fosslien, @molsands_, and I explore how the best teams are stay aligned to achieve group flow in this webinar.

Prototyping as Leadership. A great talk by @hursh at @aiDotEngineer how managers need to have a maker schedule. It’s tough to communicate intuition if you’re not close to the materials yourself. Feel very fortunate to be colleagues with BCNY and learn from them!