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 Thinking
We Made an Ad with Generative AI
How generative AI is transforming how we tell stories at Microsoft through film.
Weaving the strange: The art and alchemy of Xbox’s South of Midnight
Exploring the art, worldbuilding, and folklore-inspired design process
Secure by design: A UX toolkit
Human error causes a majority of security breaches. Our UX toolkit can help you build secure and empowered user experiences.
Thinking like AI: A new approach to AI UX design
What if AI had a resume? Our latest UX research exercise revealed fresh insights into AI’s role, challenges, and future in UX design.
Content Designers: The unsung heroes of design
Why former English majors will become the epicenter of technology & design.
Unsolicited advice to my younger designer self
What I wish I’d known starting out as a designer in big tech.
Inclusive Design’s next wave breaks for mental health
Our toolkit for designing with cognitive diversity extends into wellbeing
When designing for the disabled, fit is the finish
A one-size-fits-one toolkit for designing inclusive hardware
Microsoft Power Pages and the age of low-code no-code
The design thinking behind a new website building experience
Behind the design: Meet Copilot
When the system is the product; on crafting the next generation of user experiences
Microsoft Loop and the future of collaborative experiences
The design thinking and user research that turned into Microsoft Loop
Leave no trace Part II
How sustainable design practices can digitally reduce our carbon footprint.
Microsoft Design Week 2022: A Comprehensive Guide of What’s What for Microsoft Design Week
For the first time ever, we’re inviting external audiences to preview a batch of curated talks from our largest internal design event. Here’s your guide on what’s what, the full playlist, and more.
Leave no trace
How product designers can break from the status quo and help our planet
Digital = Physical
Green Design Principles that every designer can use to combat climate change
Slowing down to speed up
A cross-discipline collaboration to ethically leverage AI and improve in-person shopping experiences
Four principles for the future of design
How the Fluent Design System helps us evolve and grow better together
Touching holograms
How the Microsoft Mixed Reality Studios explored more immersive interactions
That’s a great idea: How to help introverts be heard in meetings
What introverts can teach us about better meeting design
Reinventing online shopping on Microsoft Edge
Helping shoppers save time and money with an intelligent browser
Responsible innovation: The next wave of design thinking
Building your moral imagination to create a more ethical future
The next chapter of collaborative experiences
How we’re pushing collaborative technologies beyond the status quo
Creation at cloud scale
How we streamlined resource creation in Microsoft Azure to improve usability, consistency, and accessibility
3 Ideas for improving content strategy
Whether you’re a novice or a vet, there’s always more to learn about content strategy
Designing for scale and complexity
How we implemented the Fluent Design System across Microsoft Azure to improve usability, consistency, and accessibility for a highly complex and evolving cloud
Designing for power and simplicity
How we evolved the Microsoft Office 365 user experience to support a more simple, powerful, and intelligent suite of connected products