Community Archives - Microsoft Design

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Community - Design Thinking - Profiles

Vibe coding makes prototyping close to code, closer to users

Meet Quirine, a computational design manager exploring how AI reshapes the way her team builds and test ideas

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Community - Design Thinking - Profiles

Breaking the mold: Braz de Pina on the evolution of creativity and design in this AI era

Meet Braz De Pina, a Principal Product Designer for Microsoft’s Experience Collective Horizontal Design Studio

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Community - Profiles

Crafting stories through motion: A conversation with Ronan McMeel

Community

The em dash conspiracy: How pop culture declared war on literature’s favorite punctuation

AI, Emily Dickinson, and the War on the Em Dash

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Community - Design Thinking

Design for cultural diversity: a perspective on global experiences

Designing for diversity isn’t just about accessibility or localization—it’s about building bridges through shared understanding.

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Windows - Community - Profiles

Windows UX in an AI-driven world

Emma Nestvold, a UX designer on the Windows design team, shares insights into her approach to design and experiences working on AI-driven features

Xbox - Community - Hardware - Profiles

An industrial designer’s 30 year journey with Microsoft

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Community - UX Research - Profiles

Sheetal Agarwal on the importance of advocating for our customers

Meet Sheetal Agarwal, a UX Research Director for Windows + Devices & Aspen Institute 2024 First Founders Fellow

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AI - Community

Lucid dreaming together with AI

A trip to Sintra that pushed the boundaries of my creativity

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Community - Inclusive Design

Designing against the deaf tax

How we can flip the script on tokenism

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Community - Content Design - Profiles

Why designers shouldn’t always be designers

A Content Designer from Microsoft Clipchamp tells her story

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Community - Sustainability

Design as an earthling

Connecting the outer worlds of our environment to the inner world of self

Xbox - Community - Profiles

How a senior game designer turned gaming into a career

Kristine Golus, the woman behind Xbox’s home editorial experience

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Community - Profiles

A 3D visual designer talks designing to scale

The demanding field requires constant learning and adaptation to new technologies and tools

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Living color: Designing through synesthesia

How a Design Director’s experience with synesthesia influenced her learning in design

AI - Community - Content Design - Profiles

In the age of AI, will content designers become extinct?

Senior Content Designer Jenny Williams talks about her role, and working with AI

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Community - Iconography - Profiles

What does an icon designer do?

Meet Jason Custer, an icon designer on the Fluent Design System team

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Humanness in remote design culture

What I learned from a year of fostering a virtual design community

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Community - Inclusive Design

Black bauhaus

How Black and African art and culture shaped design as we know it

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Community - Inclusive Design

Power of the pluriverse

How principles of radical interdependence can be applied to UX design

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Community - Profiles

Meet Studio +254: UX designer, Samantha Kitetu

Samantha Kitetu, a UX designer, sits down to talk with Ohemaa Dixon to discuss her journey in UX design so far in Nairobi, Kenya

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Community - Profiles

Meet Studio +91: Karthi Subbaraman

Karthi Subbaraman, a Design Group Experience Manager, sits down to talk with her colleague Rachel Romano to reflect on her journey in product making for Women’s History Month

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Community - Profiles

Meet Studio +254: UX Researcher, Amina Hassan Said Islam

Amina Hassan Said Islam, a UX researcher, sits down to talk with her colleague Harrison Maina to discuss her journey in UX research so far in Nairobi, Kenya