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·Jun 16

BIT!! Blacks in Tech

A mini-documentary on the lives and contributions of Blacks at Microsoft — By Tracy Jones The following video, BIT!! or Blacks In Tech, is the first installment of a documentary series about design culture at Microsoft. Design is a verb. It’s a living, breathing act made of many disciplines and one of the main roles of an ERG (Employee Resource Group) is…

Microsoft

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BIT!! Blacks in Tech
BIT!! Blacks in Tech

Published in Microsoft Design

·Jun 2

Pride Has No Borders

Behind the designs of our 2022 Pride campaign, from the new Xbox controller to fresh creations in Teams & Outlook By Tracy Jones We are honoring Pride at one of the most difficult moments in recent times. While the war in Ukraine rages on, attacks on Black and Asian people…

Microsoft

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Pride Has No Borders
Pride Has No Borders

Published in Microsoft Design

·Apr 22

Digital = Physical

Green Design Principles that every designer can use to combat climate change By Jon Friedman and Rachel Romano If you’ve seen the Matrix trilogy, it’s hard to forget the scene where Neo jolts awake to find himself in a glowing red pod, covered in goo. Naked and disoriented, he tries…

Green Design

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Digital = Physical
Digital = Physical

Published in Microsoft Design

·Feb 15

Raised By An Afrofuturist

By Tracy Jones Editor’s Note: “Raised by an Afrofuturist” is the first in a series of personal essays that brings to life the rich perspectives of the designers, storytellers, UX engineers, researchers, and operational leaders of Microsoft Design. …

Microsoft

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Raised by an Afrofuturist
Raised by an Afrofuturist

Published in Microsoft Design

·Dec 9, 2021

Silver Linings and New Hues

Collaborating with Pantone to bring more color to work and life By Microsoft Design From custom-designed hamster homes to the sourdough bread baking craze, one silver lining of the pandemic was a return to the creative impulses that adulthood so often stymies. Even we creative professionals fall prey to busy…

Microsoft

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Silver Linings and New Hues
Silver Linings and New Hues

Published in Microsoft Design

·Nov 4, 2021

Slowing Down To Speed Up

A cross-discipline collaboration to ethically leverage AI and improve in-person shopping experiences By Juliette Weiss, Rick Barraza, and Jenny Williams Think of your last satisfying in-person shopping experience (and if you have to reach back pre-pandemic, that’s ok!). Maybe you were browsing your favorite bookstore, pouring over the staff picks…

Microsoft

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Slowing Down To Speed Up
Slowing Down To Speed Up

Published in Microsoft Design

·Oct 22, 2021

Four Principles for the Future of Design

How the Fluent Design System helps us evolve and grow better together By Jennifer Bost and Anna Gregory Last year, a group of us from across Microsoft got together to tackle a tricky challenge. We needed to evolve our design principles — the concepts that articulate our shared vision and…

Microsoft

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Four Principles for the Future of Design
Four Principles for the Future of Design

Published in Microsoft Design

·Jul 15, 2021

An Emoji For Your Thoughts

Why we refreshed our 1800+ emoji to support the new landscape of work — By Claire Anderson, Art Director & Emojiologist The world has changed quite a bit since ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ became ‍🤷‍♀️. Mobile devices proliferated, the gig economy burgeoned, and remote work began to rise. Then the pandemic hit and beyond our heroic essential workers, almost everyone became a remote worker. The emoji has…

Emoji

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Emotionality at work
Emotionality at work

Published in Microsoft Design

·Jul 13, 2021

Windows 11: Designing the Next Generation

Leveraging customer insights and empathy to create for a billion people. — By Christina Koehn and Diego Baca Windows has been with many of us as far back as we can remember. It has a rich 35-year history, full of new experiences that showed us how computing can enrich our lives: writing your first essay in Microsoft Word, drawing your first digital…

Microsoft

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Windows 11: Designing the Next Generation of Windows
Windows 11: Designing the Next Generation of Windows

Published in Microsoft Design

·May 13, 2021

Touching Holograms

How the Microsoft Mixed Reality Studios explored more immersive interactions — By Oscar Salandin “Can I flick it?” We were often asked questions like this when users were testing our immersive interaction prototypes on HoloLens 2. Hologram interactions based on simulation and emergence, rather than individual features, can lead to interesting test scenarios. The honest answer was, “I don’t know, but…

Microsoft

6 min read

Touching Holograms
Touching Holograms
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