You can't take creative people, stick them in sterile, lowest cost per square foot spaces, and expect them to achieve the best work of their lives. At Atlassian, we've been focussing heavily on the design of our work spaces, to create flexible, engaging, delightful, and yes productive places for our teams to work in. It's about a lot more than foosball tables and beanbags, and we think what we've learned can have value from a freelancer's home office, to entire buildings (like ours). As our organisation has evolved from its engineering roots to incorporate a large design team, so have the needs of our office space to help us work together as multi-disciplinary teams.

1. Designer spaces
ALASTAIR SIMPSON • @ALANSTAIRS • NAT JONES • @NATEMSJ

2. THREE KEY AREAS
WHY?
MISTAKES
PRINCIPLES

3. Design thinking

5. August
IBM
Plans to hire
100 designers
KPMG
Acquires
Cynergy
March
Facebook
Acquires Hot
Studio
May
Accenture
Acquires
Fjord
2013 2014
March July
GE
Opens Design
Studio
BCG
Acquires Strategic
& Creative
October
Capital One
Acquires
Adaptive Path
2015
January
Facebook
Acquires
Teehan+Lax
April
BBVA
Acquires Spring
Studio
May
McKinsey
Acquires Lunar
Wipro
Acquires
Designit
July

7. Isolated design

8. Infuse design thinking

10. Process

11. Process
Education

12. Process
Environment
Education

13. Process
Environment
Education

14. Design thinking
Design thinking is a formal method to define
problems and ideate a number of creative, yet
customer centric solutions, and iterate to
ensure an improved future result.
ideate creative
iterate

15. ideate
creative
iterate

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Ideation:
Defined areas

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Breakout areas

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Meeting rooms

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24. Design spaces

27. Quick hacks

28. Quick hacks
Start small

29. Quick hacks
Start small
Shuffle

30. Quick hacks
Start small
Shuffle
Drive certain work

31. Quick hacks
Start small
Shuffle
Drive certain work
Facilitation items

32. Iteration:
Walls

33. Exhibition

37. All purpose

39. Transient

41. Quick hacks

42. Quick hacks
Key walls

43. Quick hacks
Key walls
Context

44. Quick hacks
Key walls
Context
Feedback

45. Quick hacks
Key walls
Context
Feedback
Regular

46. Creativity:
Inspiration

47. Statement

48. Simplify wall

49. Simplify wall

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Art

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53. LibraryLibrary

54. Library

55. Quick hacks

56. Quick hacks
Express

57. Quick hacks
Express
Essence

58. Quick hacks
Express
Essence
Diffuse

59. Mistakes

64. Iterative
Adaptive
Suggestive
Inclusive
Collaborative

65. Hack

69. Thank you!
ALASTAIR SIMPSON • @ALANSTAIRS
NAT JONES • @NATEMSJ