Charlie @ Atlassian

Today we’re announcing Remix in Confluence. Remix is part of our continual efforts to thoughtfully weave AI into the tools you already use. To respect the “beautiful mess” of real work, and help teams more clearly communicate through shared context. With Remix, we're making text feel much more malleable. We recognise that everyone thinks differently, and has different approaches when it comes to articulating ideas. By making it easy to turn text into visual stories, timelines, diagrams, briefs and more - expression becomes fluid and direct. Less time being stuck for words, and more flow. We're still working on performance, polishing the visual finesse of the remixes and tuning the usability. But in the spirit of building in public, Jenifer S (one of our stellar design leaders in Teamwork Collection) recorded a Loom where she walks through the thinking and interaction detail for the current Labs build of Remix. I hope you get a sense of our excitement and care for the detail. Watch here -> loom.com/share/992a0acb…

Reminds me of Breville toasters with the “a little bit more” button. I think we underestimate the importance of these touches. We are surround by ritualistic experiences where the ritual could be embraced with small nods to how we arrive at the moment.

Been privately testing “Morning Briefs” in @diabrowser. They prep you for the day before you've had your coffee. We’d love more ahead of GA. Type coffeeonjosh in the new tab page to try it. Setup today to get your first Morning Brief tomorrow! Please send feedback after too!

@juliestanescu @joellewenstein thank you so much for making it happen!

Excited to bring together @charliedesigned & @joellewenstein for a thoughtful conversation on how AI is reshaping how Product, Design, and Engineering build together. luma.com/0h79d4y3

@charliedeets Thanks man! I’ll try and match those TBC coffee shop vibes.

@charliedesigned Awesome. Can’t wait for this.

Next week is an exciting one for us. We'll be joining customers, developers and partners at Team '26 in Anaheim (More -> events.atlassian.com/team) It means this week is a very busy time - as designers put finishing touches on demos, decks and all the thousands of small but tangible artefacts that make these events feel like they came from one hand. A deck that should probably be further along is mine 😅 - but we'll get there by next Thursday! We just had a prep call with the team from Figma for the fireside chat portion of the Design session (titled "Designing for the beautiful mess of modern work"). It was awesome to hear all the common threads between our two teams. Both in terms of our lived experience in the AI era, as well as shared beliefs around what great design and designing will look like. But most of all, it's going to be a pleasure to share the stage with @loredanacrisan - Figma's Chief Design Officer. I've had the fortune of working with Loredana over the years, and she is one of the most incisive and deep thinkers in our field. Her attention to detail, product thinking and principled approach has always inspired me. And it's exactly the right combination for bringing clarity to the discussion around how AI is changing design as a practice. If you're not able join us in Anaheim - the session will be shared on YouTube and other places as well. (You can see last years' session to get a feel for things -> youtube.com/watch?v=VjFUEO… )

I’m excited for this event happening during #Config26. @charliedesigned & @joellewenstein will be in a candid conversation on how AI is reshaping how Product, Design, and Engineering build together. Thanks, @juliestanescu for organizing! Register here: luma.com/0h79d4y3

@davidhoang has been writing about changes to the Model/View/Controller (MVC) pattern for some time - particularly "Agents as Controllers".* I think the increasing interoperability of agents between platforms is a strong signal of that change occurring. Last week at Google Cloud Next, the next phase of interoperability between Google and Atlassian's agent ecosystems was on show. For example - you can now invoke Rovo Agents from Gemini Enterprise through the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol. To make it more tangible - this video shows someone in the Gemini CLI invoking Rovo to summarise a Jira work item. The work item is itself connected to the wider organisational context (i.e. why this bug is critical, related bugs etc). This means the fix can be faster, cheaper in tokens and more robust. Better information flows in both directions through the A2A link. So this represents a pretty sweet technical capability - the Gemini agent being capable of directly discovering, invoking, and orchestrating the Rovo agent. But there is also a very important human dimension at play - i.e. being able to maintain the red thread of an organisational "why" behind the work. As the MVC pattern changes, it brings into focus how critical shared context is in bringing a level of coherence to human and agent interaction. That interaction stream is already a fast moving, many-to-many relationship just with one person and their agent controller setup. But within a whole team, across teams of teams, bridging multiple timezones - and spanning the lattice-like complexity of a living company...context is everything. * more at proofofconcept.pub/p/a-new-mvc-is…

It might be the pitch of my particular feed - but feels like I'm seeing and hearing much more from Design Engineers / Technologists. Which is awesome. 🕰️A little history -> Way back in the 2010s when we were working on VR experiences - I got to see Brian Schulman in action in this type of role. He helped tune our prototypes in Unity, creating a stronger bridge between designers and engineers. Choosing shader frameworks, schooling us on C++ and generally making things go from possible to probable. Fifteen years later, this hybrid Design role has become one of the most high leverage investments for adopting AI-native ways of designing. I think it's especially true when it comes to raising the ceiling on craft and building systems that can scale. We're also seeing this in the numbers: - 35% month-over-month growth in AI prototyping activity - Over 12,000 AI-powered prototypes are currently running across Atlassian teams - 42% of the design team report faster delivery speeds, freeing engineers to focus on the hardest problems But beyond the numbers - it's just so cool to see our Design Technology team expand everyones' conception of what is possible. They are whip-fast, action oriented and positive folk. Always moving us from "should we do this?" to "this is how it would work if we did it / this is a better way to do it". atlassian.com/blog/how-we-bu…

@davidhoang Subtle crustacean visual ref? 🦞

Sydney is lovely and I’m so excited about the builder energy in Design and AI. En route back to California.

@NitinMurali1 "meetings to merge" is a great line! Wish I had thought of it 😀

@charliedesigned Love it! I built a similar thing that lets you go from meetings to code: domino-meet.vercel.app 5-min video: youtu.be/7VwDPwbrdQI Would love to know what you think!

One of our interaction guidelines for AI experiences is that "both content and form should be composable". What we mean by that is that you should be able give any kind of input (text, video, button click) via any interface - and it can be dynamically recomposed into another format or action by AI. A great example is being able to effortlessly turn video into code. I've recorded this live demo of the Loom Bug Report feature -> where I see a potential UI bug, and all it takes is my 15 second ramble in a Loom video to be well on the way to a production fix. 📺The demo highlights: - how seamlessly Teamwork Collection apps (Loom and Jira) go together - how agents and people both use the rich context in the Teamwork Graph - how we help teammates to get work done together, even if the way they think is very different loom.com/share/150b79ba…

@hvpandya yeah it's been great to see how stoked Atlassians are on it. The Slack feedback channel for Remix is buzzing!

@charliedesigned Was one of the fastest adopted features with folks around me. Great to see this out in the open!

Today we’re announcing Remix in Confluence. Remix is part of our continual efforts to thoughtfully weave AI into the tools you already use. To respect the “beautiful mess” of real work, and help teams more clearly communicate through shared context. With Remix, we're making text feel much more malleable. We recognise that everyone thinks differently, and has different approaches when it comes to articulating ideas. By making it easy to turn text into visual stories, timelines, diagrams, briefs and more - expression becomes fluid and direct. Less time being stuck for words, and more flow. We're still working on performance, polishing the visual finesse of the remixes and tuning the usability. But in the spirit of building in public, Jenifer S (one of our stellar design leaders in Teamwork Collection) recorded a Loom where she walks through the thinking and interaction detail for the current Labs build of Remix. I hope you get a sense of our excitement and care for the detail. Watch here -> loom.com/share/992a0acb…

It’s a long weekend in Sydney and, due to IT restrictions 😂, I made a small internal utility site to keep my laptop awake so I can go touch grass while AI does the work. Always nice to see a list of PRs each morning from Rovodev.

“Mute the noise and stay curious”. Right on @pablostanley 👏

@getthinkable @jkatahanas @sidc_ai black t-shirt dress-up days accidentally happen several times a week, so we're ready!

@charliedesigned @jkatahanas @sidc_ai Charlie - there should be mandatory a dress up day, thats not Halloween. :D

Another instalment of "it's cool to see your teammates in their fancy clothes presenting cool things". Props to @jkatahanas, @sidc_ai for being smooth operators demo'ing Rovo Remix, skills and agent assignment. And wanted to shout out @jkatahanas who is a great advocate for our design team, and part of a stellar PM team that really supported bringing the Confluence experience to a new level. We don't always agree 😉 - but the care for detail is 100% mutual. youtu.be/nfD2uEgHQCk?si…

Mastery of material and form is the through-line of great design. Mastery of 'soft goods' is one of the most difficult disciplines. I remember at Nokia when we were building outdoor products, seeing the challenges first hand. The designers needed to colour and surface match a machined ceramic dial with a polycarbonate unibody. These are totally different production methods, with ceramic being a notoriously finicky material when it comes to replicating an exact colour at scale (especially as we had chosen a warmish tone of battleship grey to make our lives more difficult). Once THAT was figured out, then a fabric loop strap was refined to aesthetically to compliment both those materials - and functionally - elegantly attach to the main device body without a bulky connection, while still having to quickly detach under load (in case it was caught in other gear). So many material, mechanical and manufacturing skills required to make this all appear effortless. Hard (and soft) things are hard.