Jason Jun

🧰 The always evolving toolchain and Story Factory Two days out from our @Atlassian Team ’26 EU conference, we decided to close the show with something ambitious: a living digital wall made of everything we had announced. We wanted to celebrate the hundreds of pieces of work from the teams, by featuring all the signature interface elements moving in concert across a ~20k pixels wide multi-screen canvas. The goal was to make each element feel placed and animated by a single designer. But doing it all by hand would have been a production nightmare, and most likely the idea would have died there. So we built a bespoke tool that could translate production code and source designs into a procedurally animated wall that scrolled endlessly across all three screens. The wildest moment for me was seeing "version 54" in the tool two days later, reflecting dozens of almost real-time changes from rehearsal feedback. The end result was a fantastic moment on stage that fully met the brief. And it was the spark for a more enduring tool that we call 'Story Factory'. This evolved version helps design, marketing, sales, and product managers to tell better stories - across more channels, by more people and with high quality. @eduardo_sonnino , @vennsoh and @jsonjun created the initial tool - and over the last month they've been jamming with @mcannonbrookes, Andrew McClenaghan, Mike Flood as well as a bunch other passionate builders to make it better every day. We're getting the same level of stoked "no way!!" reaction from the teams experimenting with it, as we got from the audience at Team '26 EU. There's a ton of lessons, implications and ideas to share - so check out @eduardo_sonnino's article on our Story Factory journey here -> teapawt.net/eduardo_sonnino/status…

The design technology team at @Atlassian is such an amazing force multiplier for everything we do. 🔥🔥

🧰 Building Protobox: our AI prototyping tool Eighteen months ago, the Atlassian Design team started the transition of building with AI-powered prototypes. Over time, we realised we could better integrate different workflows and technology stacks - so we built Protobox. It started as an app-specific kit, grew into a Bitbucket repo, and has now evolved into a full-blown Mac app. Protobox is a super flexible canvas for building on coded prototypes. The goal wasn't to replace existing design tools in our toolchain. It was to leverage code where it helps most -> bringing technical feasibility into the room early and using agent skills like "Pre-flight" and "Spec-gen" to cut down on back-and-forth. This has helped us align faster on releases across the @Atlassian System of Work - including Confluence Remix, @loom Speaker Notes, @Jira AI SDLC features and plenty more. @jenco has written an article detailing our approach, including the trade-offs and learnings. Great design requires designing great tools - and the team has absolutely delivered on that. Read more - linkedin.com/pulse/building-…

🎆 So much good stuff announced today at Team '26! I loved the spirit of how we spoke to it all. Down-to-earth live demos. Tangible translation of ideas that are often abstract. Less hype train and more seeing around corners to help companies make the most of this moment. It felt...very Atlassian. Some particular highlights for me from a design craft perspective - 🤌 Teamworkgraph.com -> just a lovely piece of work. Playful, engaging and powerful. ✨ Open Teamwork Graph w/CLI + MCP -> so many designers will build better prototypes & production experiences with this context. 🤖 Agents in Jira -> just dragging a few cards and seeing a bunch of agents get to work, is so simple and approachable. 🔎 Code Intelligence in Rovo -> connecting code with the 'why of the code' reduces friction for teams working with design systems. 💻 Dia Browser -> we're creatures of rhythm and ritual, the morning brief is such a sweet moment in my day.