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Create Ways of Being
Art, AI, and Human Existence.
Designing the first five minutes
Why onboarding matters for agent experiences – and how to get it right.
The naked designer: What happens when you can’t hide behind craft
Matthew Santone on the changing face of design
Copilot: The Reset
How we serve a billion people as if they're the only one in the room
When outputs are the experience
Inside our latest Copilot redesign, where the experience adapts to how people use it.
Pride is alive
How everyday moments inspired Microsoft’s Pride 2026 campaign
The Great UXR Transformation
A working guide to modernizing your UX research practice for the AI era
A touch of feeling: advanced haptics in Windows 11
Guidelines on how to design haptics for supported devices
Haptics design and implementation
Guidance for adding haptic feedback to improve clarity, support inclusion, and create more intuitive experiences.
Self-portraits: Anthony Dart
A South African artist on his graphic design journey
Self-portraits: Madeline Kleiner
A UX researcher helped Copilot meet people in the flow of their work.
Proof and possibility
On becoming Microsoft’s first Chief Design Officer
A simplified system
Our ongoing process to build an AI-forward design system that supports work today, while carrying us into tomorrow.
The missing seat at the frontier team table
How user research and data science can together shape LLM evaluations
Self-portraits: You Zhang
A former motion storyteller turns to design systems and prototyping, using AI to sketch wireframes and make widgets feel real.
Paper, please: The box that did more with less
How Microsoft reduced single-use plastic in packaging to just 0.07%
Design isn’t dying. It’s shifting left.
When the model is the new medium, shaping how it behaves in humanistic ways is design