Smart Designer

Smart Designer is a great tool for helping you bring style and formatting to your pages, it makes it a breeze to change a page from drab to fab.

Tip: You get the best results when using Smart Designer on pages with minimal formatting.

Overview

Once you have a page with some content open Smart Designer.
Click Start Designing then highlight the content you want to work on. Smart Designer suggests different macro options that you can add as design elements. Each option provides a different look and feel. The macros are already filled with content
Select the macro that best fits your needs and add it to the page.
If you want edit the design to get your ideal end result.
When you're done adding all the design elements you want to your page, save it to return to the Confluence edit page.

Open Smart Designer

Add content to your page first so you can see the full effects of Smart Designer.

There are two ways to open Smart Designer.

From the Edit page, type /Smart Designer and select the Smart Designer macro.
Note: You can do this anywhere on the page without it affecting your content.
From a Published page, select the Smart Designer icon.

Transform Existing Content

In the Smart Designer canvas, click Start Designing.
Highlight the content you want to work on. You must select at least ten words.
Optional:
Note: Advanced Edition only
Select a Brand Kit if they have been added to your space/instance. Smart Designer will then use the colors and images from your brand kit in the generated macros.
Choose one of the design options from the menu. Select each to see how it looks on your page. The preview of the macro is shown below the content that you highlighted.
Your options are:
Click Finish to add the new macro to your page.
Repeat for as many parts of your page as you need.

Content Controls

Use Your Own Content

By default Smart Designer will use your content inside the generated macros. However, if you prefer you can use the content as a guide and have it rewritten by AI. Select AI Writing from the Content Control toggle.

To better tailor the generated content to your needs you can choose the tone of voice used.

Edit a Design

After you add a design to a page you can edit it. This lets you open the editor for your chosen macro to change things like the images and colours. The options will depend on which element you choose.

Select the edit icon to open the editor.
Make your changes
Click Save to return to the Smart Designer Canvas.

Once you save and return to the edit page you can make further changes to all your content.

Delete a Design

Select the design you want to remove, then select the trash icon.

Once you save and return to the edit page you can make further changes to all your content, including removing any elements you no longer need.

Add New Content and Design Elements

You can build your pages from scratch inside Smart Designer including adding macros and formatting to your page.

Format Your Content

You can format your content using the toolbar at the top of the Smart Designer canvas.

Add Macros to Your Page

You can add empty macros to your page by using /macro name or by using the elements tab. From here you can add wide range of both Mosaic and Atlassian macros.

You can also add Numbered Headings to your page by using the Numbered Headings button.

Save your Changes

Select Save to save the changes as a draft page. Select Publish to publish your changes.
Select ↓ next to the Save or Publish button to have more options.
- Replace page - save your changes to the existing page.
- Create child page - create a new page with the designs you have added. The new page is a child of the original page. This is a good option if you want to keep the original page as well as the new one.

FAQs

Q. Can I change the designs after I add them to the page?

A. You can edit designs as soon as you add them. Select the edit icon to open the macro editor. You can also edit the whole page after you Save and return to the edit page.

Q. Can I add these design elements without using Smart Designer?

A. If you know which element you want you can just add the macro directly to the page on the Confluence edit page. The macros included in Smart Designer are:

Q. Can I select any type of content on my page?

A. Smart Designer is able to work with most type of content. The main exception is content inside tables. If you wish to format content from a table, the best option is to remove it from the table before opening Smart Designer.

Q. Can I use Smart Designer without AI?

A. If your organization doesn't allow the use of AI but you still need all the benefits of Smart Designer, you can use the Advanced Edition of Mosaic. With the Advanced Edition you can use a special version of Smart Designer that is not powered by AI. You get all the benefits of quick page transformation without the security concerns of sending data to external AI models.

Once on Advanced Edition your admin can turn off AI features to switch Smart Designer to the non-AI version.

Advanced Edition Features.