The naked designer: What happens when you can’t hide behind craft
Matthew Santone on the changing face of design
Design Thinking
Proof and possibility
On becoming Microsoft’s first Chief Design Officer
Design isn’t dying. It’s shifting left.
When the model is the new medium, shaping how it behaves in humanistic ways is design
From incubation to impact: Microsoft 365 Companion apps
How scrappy prototypes became polished apps—shipped on the taskbar, grounded in Fluent, and refined by research.
Outcomes over output: Designing shared cognition
How we are shaping systems that help people think better, not just type faster.
Designing loops, not paths
How cybernetic loops are helping us turn “human in the loop” from a catchphrase into a design practice
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
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
The future of AI isn’t just in the office—it’s on the job site
AI could create economic mobility for essential frontline workers—here’s how product makers can shift our thinking to encompass those experiences
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
A mobile-first approach for Microsoft 365 Copilot
How Microsoft is reimagining productivity from a mobile-first lens
Designs for the frontier future
How we rebuilt the Microsoft 365 Copilot app for a new kind of productivity
From paper to pixels: The evolution of ClearType and onscreen reading
How we made digital text like printed words on paper
Evolving human-centered design: Part 1
Our approach to Human-Centered Design, and the gaps therein
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.
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