Inclusive Design Archives - Microsoft Design

A sleek tablet is showcased in three views. On the left, it is in an open, blue box on a blue background. Top right shows the closed box in black. Bottom right displays the tablet with its kickstand open, set against a beige backdrop.

Prioritizing inclusion over convention: Rethinking how we design packaging

Curious about how we design inclusively? The Microsoft Packaging & Content team just released “Creating Accessible Packaging: An Inclusive Design Guide,” available for all.

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.

Op-Ed - Inclusive Design

Designing against the deaf tax

How we can flip the script on tokenism

Inclusive Design - Design Thinking - UX/UI

Inclusive Design’s next wave breaks for mental health

Our toolkit for designing with cognitive diversity extends into wellbeing

Illustration of a cityscape blending urban and countryside elements. Depicts tall buildings, houses, trees, a wheelchair user, people working at desks, a bus, farm fields, and various technological icons on a dark background with a white line drawing style.

Inclusive Design - Design Thinking - Hardware

When designing for the disabled, fit is the finish

A one-size-fits-one toolkit for designing inclusive hardware

Inclusive Design - Visual Design - UX/UI

Microsoft Design Week 2024

A comprehensive guide of what’s what for Microsoft Design Week

Illustration of a bright white light exploding from the center surrounded by radiating beams in yellow, orange, and white. The background features abstract, dark arches and swirling patterns in navy blue and purple hues.

Op-Ed - Inclusive Design

Black Bauhaus

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

A painting of a person looking contemplatively out of a window. The individual is wearing a light yellow hoodie and a white headscarf. The background is a solid light blue color, enhancing the serene and reflective atmosphere of the scene.

Op-Ed - Inclusive Design

Power of the Pluriverse

How principles of radical interdependence can be applied to UX design

A colorful illustration of a smiling woman with short black hair, labeled as a "Principal Design Researcher." The background features abstract patterns and silhouettes of people in vibrant shades of pink, blue, and purple.

Inclusive Design - Profiles

Adoley Azu on her journey of inclusion

How a Principal Design Researcher is bridging the digital divide

A pile of brightly colored plastic rock climbing holds, mainly in purple, orange, and white, scattered on a gray surface. The holds vary in shape and size, designed for different types of climbing grips.

Inclusive Design - Hardware

The making of Microsoft Adaptive Accessories

How we’re designing assisted devices to give everyone access to the future.

A vibrant, abstract artwork featuring an explosion of colorful, elongated rectangles converging at a central point. The colors include various shades of the rainbow, with some rectangles containing small symbols like a Greek letter alpha and other icons.

Inclusive Design - Brand

Pride should be open source

Bringing LGBTQIA+ history to life in the metaverse and through open source design.

A colorful and whimsical illustration of six abstract, humanoid characters with various shapes and outfits. One character is glitching on the left, and another has a floating head. The vibrant background is light blue.

Inclusive Design - UX Research

When equal isn’t equitable

Insights and best practices from Microsoft’s Inclusive Research team

A modern, digitally rendered image featuring a compass drawing geometric shapes on an open, textured black book. Various neon blue and green geometric objects and tools surround the book, creating a futuristic, mathematical aesthetic.

Inclusive Design - Design Thinking

Responsible innovation: The next wave of design thinking

Building your moral imagination to create a more ethical future

Six black posters with motivational quotes in different font styles and colors are arranged in two rows on a grass background. Quotes: "Design or Be Designed," "Lead from Within," "Sorry Not Sorry," "Lead by Design," and "Alignment over Hustle.

Inclusive Design

Within Retreat learnings: The importance of diversity and mindfulness in leadership

Five ways emerging women leaders can lift each other up

Two silhouetted individuals high-five in front of a colorful background featuring "WE ARE HERE" in large text. The backdrop is associated with the Grace Hopper Celebration, organized by AnitaB.org. Vibrant wave patterns are seen at the bottom of the image.

Inclusive Design

Two women and one man walk into the Grace Hopper celebration…

Meaningful insights from three very different GHC attendees