UX Research Archives - Microsoft Design

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Putting the user back into AI Evaluation

Think First

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Rebuilding research from the ground up

Think First

A geometric diagram with five black dots connected by yellow triangles, featuring four images: a cyclist silhouette, a purple square, a colorful blurry square, and an oval shape at the top left.

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The Great UXR Transformation 

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

Oped UX/UI

A green rectangular table with papers, pencils, and books, surrounded by colorful office chairs—red, orange, green, purple, and blue—on a bright blue floor. One chair at the front is shown as a white silhouette.

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The missing seat at the frontier team table

How user research and data science can together shape LLM evaluations

Evals UX/UI

A hand-drawn illustration of five smiling adults—three men and two women—standing in front of a beige background with geometric shapes and floral designs sketched behind them.

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Making UX research insights and frameworks beautiful

Discover how one team transformed a complex UX research framework into a visually engaging artifact to make insights stick and spark alignment across teams

Design Thinking UX/UI

Illustration of two overlapping human profiles facing opposite directions, filled with interconnected gears and neural connections, symbolizing complex thought processes and mental connectivity. The image uses vibrant purple, blue, and pink colors.

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Supercharge your agile UX research with informal cognitive walkthroughs

Part two: The external user review

Three small abstract pyramids are displayed, each with distinct and artistic paint patterns. The foreground pyramid features a black and white striped design, while the background pyramids have a mix of marbled and striped colors, including purple accents.

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Science in the system: Turning squares into circles

Blur Effects, Part 2: Anti-aliasing

A close-up of several industrial metal blocks stacked on top of each other against a plain white background. One block has the letter 'K' engraved on it, while another block has a hole through it. The bottom block displays an engraved figure.

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