The new Microsoft icons: diverse and connected

We've created this video to thank the people who joined the collaborative effort to develop our new Microsoft icon system. Our mission was to create a beautiful, moving, coherent icon system, and each discipline added its expertise to the process. The resulting One Microsoft icon design language is unique to Microsoft and reflects our brand personality.

Learn more about this collective effort from the leaders who championed their team's work:

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[herasmotorres]

I would love to see the reveal effect showed on 0:35 on Windows

[chainsburg]

my eyes are melting over that animation

[giosanpedro]

It's such a delight to watch your videos recently. This one's no exception. Keep it up!

[DebjyotiGorai]

At 0:34 the reveal effect looks amazing.

[srejitk]

Everytime a video comes from the Microsoft Design team, my heart skips a beat ❤️

[astro_case]

The sound design is spot on, as always! Quality of work I aspire to make someday haha

[rhys]

is there like a 2 hour version of this I can watch, where each icon get’s it’s own unique debut 🤩

[qpol]

these guys can make an ad for anything and i’d be interested

[alexx]

Finally, Microsoft did it, he beat Apple and Google icon design with so high quality and smooth icons! I love it! I can't wait that colorful lights on my program frames in the next Windows update! 😃😄😁😮👍🏻👍🏻

[pierredutoit]

I love the minimalistic but futuristic look

[qpol]

i just watched, and enjoyed an ad for.... ICONS.

[happyhardcore]

Looks juicy, MS brings back the style

[atari]

Finally looks great, especially tiles with colorful border, wow!

[tryk]

That start menu 😍
Would love to see that on Windows

[adityadutta]

That really was a fun animation of all icons! Loved the future navigation animation!

[mukhan]

Loving the new direction Microsoft is going!

[JoshuaTimothy]

I'm so excited to see this awesome design work filter into Windows! I love the new icons and the UI updates over the past couple of months!

[paulpantea]

Is this just to show the concept, or are these icons and animations gonna be implemented in some (near) future version of Windows?

[johnnyzarate]

But one question still remains: *when?*

[ExpandJourney]

Which team at Microsoft did this? It's very visually pleasing.