Community Archives - Microsoft Design

Bringing a humanitarian lens to the future of AI

Op-edUX Research Community

Pride is alive

How everyday moments inspired Microsoft’s Pride 2026 campaign

Inclusive DesignTypography Community

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

Self-portraits: You Zhang

A former motion storyteller turns to design systems and prototyping, using AI to sketch wireframes and make widgets feel real.

CareersCulturePeopleProfiles Community

Design Week 2025: Shaping the future of design at Microsoft

Joining forces across our design community to push the boundaries of creativity and collaboration.

Design Week Community

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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

Design ThinkingProfile Community

A blueprint-style illustration features the name "Braz De Pina" in bold blue text next to a sketched portrait of a man with glasses, beard, and wavy hair on a grid background.

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

Design ThinkingProfile Community

Colorful illustration of a man with gray hair and a beard, surrounded by playful blue birds. The background features the text "Ronan McMeel" and "Motion Design" in bold, whimsical fonts.

Crafting stories through motion: A conversation with Ronan McMeel

ProfileProfiles 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

Op-ed Community

A vibrant abstract illustration composed of geometric shapes and stylized human faces in a bold color palette of blue, red, yellow, black, and cream. The composition features overlapping blocks, circles, lines, and curved forms, evoking a modernist, Bauhaus-inspired aesthetic with cultural and emotional depth.

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.

Design ThinkingOp-ed Community

Designing for humanity in the age of AI: Reflections from India UX Day 2025

AIDesign ThinkingOped Community

An industrial designer’s 30 year journey with Microsoft

ProfileProfilesXbox Community

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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

ProfileProfiles Community

A collage of numerous small images of cats, arranged to form a larger image of a cat's face. The collage includes various cat breeds and colors, with each smaller image contributing to the detailed depiction of a feline.

Lucid dreaming together with AI

A trip to Sintra that pushed the boundaries of my creativity

AIOp-ed Community

A surreal, abstract digital artwork featuring disembodied hands interacting with geometric shapes. The composition includes cylindrical and circular forms with a reflective, metallic texture on a vibrant pink and yellow gradient background.

Designing against the deaf tax

How we can flip the script on tokenism

Inclusive DesignOp-ed Community

A stylized collage featuring a woman with long brown hair wearing a patterned sweater on the right, and a person working at a desk on the left. Bold text reads "Simone Williams," with a large yellow circle underneath. Various graphic elements are scattered throughout.

Why designers shouldn’t always be designers

A Content Designer from Microsoft Clipchamp tells her story

Content DesignOp-ed Community

A whimsical scene featuring large, bubble-text letters spelling out "Jessica Kashita" amidst stylized plants and mountains. The scene includes a wooden desk with a vintage computer, potted plants, a watering can, and a photo of a woman taped to the desk.

Design as an earthling

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

Op-edSustainability Community

How a senior game designer turned gaming into a career

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

CommunityProfileXbox Community

A canvas of community narratives

Xbox celebrates a year of visual storytelling by launching new dynamic backgrounds

Xbox Community

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