Introducing a refreshed experience for Atlassian Administration

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Hi Community, I'm Lauren, a PMM looking after Atlassian Administration and our billing platforms.

You told us that finding the right settings in Atlassian Administration could be easier, and we listened. We’re excited to share that we’ve made several meaningful improvements to the admin experience based on your feedback.

Starting Aug 4, 2025, we’re rolling out these key enhancements designed to help you find what you need, faster:

1. We’ve reorganized and renamed sections in the sidebar to make navigation simpler and more intuitive. These changes are based on your feedback and are designed to help you find features and settings more efficiently.

2. We’re bringing Atlassian’s new global navigation - which has already rolled out to Jira and Confluence - to Atlassian Administration, creating a more consistent experience across apps. Learn more about Atlassian’s global navigation here.

3. Atlassian Administration will receive a modern visual refresh - updated colors, fonts and icons for a cleaner, more accessible look and feel.

Thank you to everyone who participated in our recent usability studies and shared feedback - you’ve played a key role in shaping this experience, and we look forward to continuing to collect and incorporate your feedback.

Demo video: see what’s coming

Watch this short demo video of the full experience, including the updated global navigation and the refreshed feature organization:

Before and after: what’s changing in the sidebar?

Note: this view of Atlassian Administration may differ for you depending on your role and permissions.

When is it happening?

As part of our ongoing efforts to improve usability, we’ll be gradually rolling this out from early August to early October:

Phase	Date	What You’ll See
Early rollout begins	August 4, 2025	Admins start seeing either 1) Global navigation or 2) Global navigation and the new information architecture.
Phased rollout continues	August - October	Gradual increase in rollout across admins based on feedback.
Full rollout completion	October 6, 2025	All admins will see both the updated navigation and the new information architecture.

Note: we’re rolling out these changes progressively, so you may initially see just the new navigation or the full experience at first. A modal within Atlassian Administration will notify you of these updates one week prior to their implementation.

When this update becomes available to you, you will have the ability to toggle between the current and new experiences to get familiar with the changes and to give feedback. Once rollout is complete in early October, the new experience will become the standard and the toggle will be removed.

We’re excited to bring these improvements to you, and if you have thoughts or questions about this new experience, we’d love to hear from you in the comments. Thank you for helping to shape the future of Atlassian Administration.

[Rune Rasmussen]

It's nice that the UI will be consistent with the products.
I don't know if I would say the new UI is actively better than the old one. The few improvements I've seen so far, navigation wise, I think would have been doable in the old UI as well.
But consistency is always better than inconsistency.

I'm not entirely excited about the general approach of "just use the search bar to find it".
I fear it can become an excuse to not bother creating an actually easily navigable set of menus.

Do we have a list of what has been renamed and what has been moved around (to and from)?

And is it possible to request having the new navigation applied actively or do we just have to be patient and wait our turn?

[Tomislav Tobijas]

I like the consistency with the new UI in other apps.

Btw, any chance 🖤 dark theme is coming to Atlassian Administration as well? 🙃

[Dave Mathijs]

👀 good @Lauren Rodolico , I like the consistency with the new global navigation. Can't wait for the roll-out!