UX/UI Archives - Microsoft Design

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Designing the first five minutes

Why onboarding matters for agent experiences – and how to get it right.

Op-edUX/UI Design Thinking

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Gathering around the fire: Durable human experience patterns in the AI era

OpedUX/UI Design Thinking

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The Great UXR Transformation 

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

OpedUX/UI UX Research

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The missing seat at the frontier team table

How user research and data science can together shape LLM evaluations

EvalsUX/UI UX Research

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Design isn’t dying. It’s shifting left.

When the model is the new medium, shaping how it behaves in humanistic ways is design

Design ThinkingUX/UI Product

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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.

Design ThinkingM365UX/UIWindows Product

The new Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile experience

How we redesigned the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app to create a workspace built around conversation, dialogue, and discovery.

AIM365 CopilotUX/UI Product

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The new UI for enterprise AI

Evolving business apps and agents through form and function

IconographyM365UX/UI Product

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The age of the design hacker

Six practical mindsets for building secure and resilient UX

UX/UI Product

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Reimagining our front door

Using positive psychology to craft delightful sign-in & sign-up experiences

UX/UIWindows Product

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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 ThinkingUX/UI UX Research

A mobile-first approach for Microsoft 365 Copilot  

How Microsoft is reimagining productivity from a mobile-first lens

Design ThinkingUX/UI Product

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From paper to pixels: The evolution of ClearType and onscreen reading

How we made digital text like printed words on paper

Design ThinkingUX/UI Craft

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Start, fresh — Redesigning the Windows Start menu for you

This is the first post in our new Beyond the Surface series, a behind-the-scenes look at how craft comes to life in Windows products and features.

UX/UIWindows Product

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Evolving human-centered design: Part 1

Our approach to Human-Centered Design, and the gaps therein

Design ThinkingUX/UI Craft

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UX design for agents

Microsoft principles and guidelines for building agentic experiences

UX ResearchUX/UI Product

A glimpse into the history of Windows design

UX/UIWindows Product

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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.

Design ThinkingUX/UI Product

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Illuminating the next era of computing

A futuristic exploration between Microsoft and Artemide based on the interplay of light and technology.

HardwareUX/UI Product

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Design systems for the AI era

How we’re building the tools to build the future

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