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"Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent."
— Joe Sparano
You will craft industry standard design patterns and components for Microsoft products, working across various platforms and devices. Additionally, you will advocate for the design system and guide designers on how to adopt new controls into features.
Responsibilities
- Craft industry standard design patterns and components for Microsoft products
- Define usage guidelines and best practices for internal and external stakeholders
- Deliver components and critical design system infrastructure underpinning the product and supporting the broader Fluent design system
- Create design assets for designers that provide efficient workflows and solutions to their day-to-day tasks
- Close-knit collaboration with designers and developers both in building the system and maintaining it
- Gathering requirements across various teams to create rationale for adding new components or features to the system in close collaboration with PM
- Advocate for the design system by working closely with other designers and stakeholders to demonstrate its value
- Produce hands-on demos, videos and presentations as well as working 1:1, to guide designers on how to adopt new controls into features
- Identify user-centered design patterns including creating detailed accessibility and interaction guidelines
- Place designs into user context and create interactions that align to those requirements
- Show attention to detail and passion in the work you produce
Requirements
- Experience working closely with engineers to deliver features at a high-quality pixel perfect level
- Articulate thinking using a variety of mediums from detailed design specifications to wireframes and functional prototypes
- Experience working with design tokens and graphic/visual design is advantageous
- Detailed accessibility specs and a11y guidance for how to build inclusive experiences is fundamental to the design system
Key Skills
- Figma
- Sketch
- Collaboration with engineers
- Design specifications
- Wireframes
- Functional prototypes
- Design tokens
- Graphic/visual design
- Accessibility specs
- A11y guidance
About Microsoft
Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters. Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately 228,000 passionate employees worldwide.
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