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Stories from the thinkers and tinkerers at Microsoft. Sharing sketches, designs, and everything in between.
Redmond, WA
Joined October 2010
Because some paradigms were ahead of their time. here's to designing the next 50 years with you. #DesigningPossibility #Microsoft50
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A quiet moment in full bloom 🌸. Inspired by the idea of a private garden conversation, the new Copilot app wallpaper captures calm through color, form, and flow. Download now🔗:
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Turning research into something people actually use takes more than insights. It takes storytelling, clarity, and design craft. One designer reimagined a complex AI framework with help from a visual agency and made the work stick 🧠.
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The result is a conversational interface shaped by culture and designed for clarity, where AI stays in the background and people stay in control. This approach moves beyond a mobile-first mindset. It’s rooted in a deep understanding of human needs, environments, and behaviors 👤.
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A mobile device isn’t just a phone—it’s a workspace, a connection to family, a health tracker, and a way to navigate life. Led by @microsoftidc, the new #Copilot mobile experience accounts for crowded spaces, low connectivity, and a diversity of languages and contexts 🧵⬇️.
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Our new Pride 2025 wallpapers are here 🤩 ! Created by our design teams to honor the strength of the LGBTQIA+ community and the power of support, these new backgrounds are filled with expressive textures and vibrant interpretations of Pride 🎨. 🔗:
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Today on the blog, Jon Friedman unpacks how we rebuilt Copilot for a new era of digital work and what it means to design for the most important OS of all 🌎.
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Bill Hill, a late Microsoft researcher, once said: “The most important operating system you’ll write applications for isn’t Windows or Mac or Linux; it’s Homo Sapiens 1.0. It shipped about 100,000 years ago. There’s no upgrade in sight, and it’s the one that runs everything.” ⬇️.
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25 years ago onscreen reading was like trying to walk a tightrope in a wind tunnel. It was an arduous task, but Microsoft’s ClearType flipped the script by sharpening digital letters to make onscreen reading as comfortable as a book 📕.
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From lugging a portfolio across Dublin to leading motion storytelling at Microsoft, Ronan McMeel’s design journey is anything but linear. In this Q&A, he shares how freelancing shaped him and why motion design is about more than just movement 📽️. 🔗:
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Is the em dash a dead giveaway that you’re a robot? That’s what some folks on the internet are saying. But history—and Emily Dickinson, Vonnegut, and Nabokov—disagree. The dash is messy. It interrupts. It thinks out loud. In other words: it’s human 👋.
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RT @designjon: The new #Microsoft365Copilot app is now GA 🎉—a product shaped by clarity, iteration, & care. It’s one thing to talk about hu….
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What does it mean to craft for change in #technology?. We spoke with the design team behind the new @Surface Copilot+ PCs about adapting to motion, rethinking input, and designing hardware that stays out of your way. Read the full story ⬇️.
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Human-centered design starts with a user—but what if the real challenge is designing for many 🌍? . Colton Perry, Ph.D., breaks down how shifting to system-centered design helps us build more resilient, inclusive products. Read Part 1 👇. #UX .
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🌍 Designing for diversity means more than translation—it means empathy, cultural depth, and building bridges.”. In his new op-ed 📝, Microsoft UX Designer Marcos Rezende explores what it really takes to design for global audiences.
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RT @Microsoft365: More collaboration. More relevant search results. More advanced image generation. It's all in Microsoft 365 Copilot's big….
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