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Atlassians Confluence gets a new template gallery

April 8, 2020April 8, 2020 NewsEditorAtlassian, Collaboration

Confluence, Atlassian’s content-centric collaboration tool for teams, is making it easier for new users to get started with the launch of an updated template gallery and 75 new templates. They incorporate what the company has learned from its customers and partners since it first launched the service back in 2004. About a year ago, Atlassian gave Confluence a major makeover, with an updated editor and advanced analytics. Today’s update isn’t quite as dramatic, but goes to show that Confluence has evolved from a niche wiki for technical documentation teams to…

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Design may be the next entrepreneurial gold rush

December 23, 2019December 23, 2019 NewsEditorAirbnb, amish jani, andrew reed, Atlassian, canva, clark valberg, confluence, Dropbox, Dylan Field, eloqua, Figma, GitHub, HubSpot, LinkedIn, marketo, MySpace, Salesforce, Shopify, sketch, trello, Uber

Ten years ago, the vast majority of designers were working in Adobe Photoshop, a powerful tool with fine-tuned controls for almost every kind of image manipulation one could imagine. But it was a tool built for an analog world focused on photos, flyers and print magazines; there were no collaborative features, and much more importantly for designers, there were no other options. Since then, a handful of major players have stepped up to dominate the market alongside the behemoth, including InVision, Sketch, Figma and Canva. And with the shift in…