Brantley Essary discusses the collaboration issues between development and design teams at Atlassian, highlighting the lack of formal processes and understanding of UX among developers. He emphasizes the importance of involving all stakeholders—product management, design, and engineering—in planning meetings and design reviews to improve product quality. The document suggests that enhancing communication and collaboration can lead to more effective outcomes in product development.

1. BRANTLEY ESSARY • DEVELOPER • ATLASSIAN
Practiced Curiosity
Building Collaboration between
Development and Design

3. CAUSES
PROBLEMS
SOLUTIONS
Agenda

4. Our Problems

5. Roadmaps not
in sync

6. Lack of clarity
between
teams

7. Developers
designing,
without
design review

8. What causes this?

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• 2,56
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No formal processes for
collaboration

10. • Big cool statistic
• 2,56
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…maybe developers don’t
100% understand what UX is

11. • Big cool statistic
• 2,56
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Designers not regarded as
major stakeholders

12. • Big cool statistic
• 2,56
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Designers not regarded as
major stakeholders

13. Story time:
A Lack of Curiosity

14. What we can do to fix this

15. Have ALL
stakeholders
in planning
meetings

16. Have ALL
stakeholders
in planning
meetings
Product Management
Design
Engineering

17. Share your plan

18. Design
Reviews!

19. It’s about building products
that truly matter

20. To Summarize

21. Plan with all
stakeholders
Product Management, Design, Engineering

22. Share your team’s plan

23. Review work with
designers

24. Thank you!
BRANTLEY ESSARY • DEVELOPER • ATLASSIAN