Microsoft Design

Promptcraft

A practical guide to art direction for generative imagery

AIDesign Thinking Inspiration

Product designer Qian Jiang poses with a stylus next to a minimalist line drawing and the text, “Designing humanity in the intelligence age.”

Design humanity in the intelligence age

How to make an intelligence a thought partner

AIDesign Thinking Design Thinking

Scaling the design process

How intelligence and data can make us more human-centered designers

AIDesign ThinkingUX/UI Product

Close-up of a marble statue of a woman with the text “Michelangelus” overlaid in white.

Designing Michelangelus

Inside the making of a contemporary serif font inspired by one of history’s most influential visionaries.

ArtTypography Craft

More than a mark

How Copilot’s icon joined the conversation

BrandIconography Design Thinking

A collage with a blue section showing water, a black-and-white portrait of a woman, and a white section with abstract line art and a clipped photo, all on a green background. Text reads “Create Ways of Being” and “Qian Jiang.”.

Create Ways of Being

Art, AI, and Human Existence.

ArtCultureDesign Design Thinking

White pixelated text “Eval” is centered over a light botanical line drawing on a reddish-brown background. The words “Think” and “First” appear above and below the flower, with small white squares in each corner.

Putting the user back into AI Evaluation

Think First UX Research

Rebuilding research from the ground up

Think First UX Research

A split image: left side shows a simple clock with hands at 12 and 2; right side shows lines connecting to words, reading “Hello! I’m your digital agent,” on a blue gradient background.

Designing the first five minutes

Why onboarding matters for agent experiences – and how to get it right.

Op-edUX/UI Design Thinking

A pixelated portrait of a man is knitted on a square piece of fabric; a loose strand of yarn spirals outward on a red background.

The naked designer: What happens when you can’t hide behind craft

Matthew Santone on the changing face of design

Design ThinkingOp-ed Design Thinking

Bringing a humanitarian lens to the future of AI

Op-edUX Research Community

A soft, gradient background with a split image: left shows a large yellow sun with birds, right shows three abstract glowing figures around a flame.

Gathering around the fire: Durable human experience patterns in the AI era

OpedUX/UI Design Thinking

When outputs are the experience

Inside our latest Copilot redesign, where the experience adapts to how people use it.

M365 CopilotUI/UX Design Thinking

Pride is alive

How everyday moments inspired Microsoft’s Pride 2026 campaign

Inclusive DesignTypography Community

Abstract geometric illustration with yellow lines connecting nodes, featuring a cyclist silhouette, a pink oval, a square with a blurry gradient, and a smaller purple square on a light background.

The Great UXR Transformation 

A working guide to modernizing your UX research practice for the AI era

OpedUX/UI UX Research

A touch of feeling: advanced haptics in Windows 11

Guidelines on how to design haptics for supported devices

hapticsInclusive DesignSurfaceWindows Product

A laptop with a highlighted trackpad, a stylus pen, and a computer mouse with highlighted areas on a white surface, suggesting interactive touch or input zones.

Haptics design and implementation

Guidance for adding haptic feedback to improve clarity, support inclusion, and create more intuitive experiences.

Guidelines

Self-portraits: Anthony Dart

A South African artist on his graphic design journey

CareersCultureProfileTypography Community

Self-portraits: Madeline Kleiner

A UX researcher helped Copilot meet people in the flow of their work.

CareersCultureM365 CopilotUX Research Community

Proof and possibility

On becoming Microsoft’s first Chief Design Officer

Design ThinkingM365 Copilot Craft