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Fluent Design System

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Fluent Design System Evolution

Keep up to date with the latest Fluent Design System updates at Microsoft Build 2018.
Announcement

Announcing UWP XAML Islands

Kevin Gallo announces UWP XAML Islands with host controls for WinForms, WPF, at Microsoft Build 2018. 
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Courageous Design - embracing iteration

Courageous Design – embracing successes and failures through iteration.
Session

Fluent Design System inside of Microsoft: Office

Learn how Office and Windows are working together to bring Office's productivity expertise to the Fluent design language, allowing developers around the world to create highly productive experiences which scale to meet their needs. With Fluent, any developer can create apps that are productive and beautiful.
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Creating Innovative Experiences for Fluent Design

Explore how to create engaging Windows applications by incorporating effects, animations, and new types of content that form the building blocks for the Fluent Design System. This session showcases new platform capabilities that enable you to craft innovative 2D and 3D experiences using volumetric objects, vector graphics, depth, motion, lights, and materials.
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Our Fluent Path to Spatial Computing

As the walls between our digital and physical worlds continue to fade, explore how the latest Fluent System paradigms developed for Desktop today will prepare developers and customers for the spatial experiences of tomorrow.
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Fluent Design: Evolving our Design System

Microsoft has continued to evolve the Fluent Design System’s set of controls, patterns, principles and design guidance since its debut at Build 2017. Get a hands-on look at how 1st-party Microsoft experiences are taking advantage of the system and empowering their users to achieve more by crafting experiences that are natural on each device, intuitive, powerful, engaging, and immersive. Come learn how you can build experiences with the latest Fluent Design features to help your users do more in our multi-device, multi-sensory world 
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What's New for Windows UX Developers

Join us for a lap around the new innovations coming to the Windows ux platform this year. Catch up on the latest UWP APIs and how you can use familiar technologies like XAML and C# to build experiences that leverage the Fluent Design System to captivate your customers and maximize their productivity.
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Designing for Fluent with Adobe XD and other tools

Learn from Microsoft designers how they use Adobe XD, Sketch, and other design tools and resources to help them quickly go from concept to design.
Demo

Fluent Design System Demo

Kevin Gallo demonstrates how Fluent Design works with XAML Islands and Windows Desktop Applications.
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#BuildMC - Q&A with Kevin Gallo, Microsoft

Build MC for Consumer Devs, Iris Classon, gets an exclusive interview with Windows Developer Platform CVP, Kevin Gallo, at #MSBuild. Follow Iris: http://wndw.ms/O0iYQt
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#BuildMC - Q&A with James Clarke

Neil checks in with James Clarke from the Microsoft team about composition, XAML and how to power rich Fluent experiences. #MSBuild Follow Neil: http://wndw.ms/YUgJ38

Fluent Design System inside of Microsoft: Office

Learn how Office and Windows are working together to bring Office's productivity expertise to the Fluent design language, allowing developers around the world to create highly productive experiences which scale to meet their needs. With Fluent, any developer can create apps that are productive and beautiful.

Fluent Design System

Get guidelines and UI code examples for creating app experiences on Windows 10.

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Designing for Fluent with Adobe XD and other tools

Learn from Microsoft designers how they use Adobe XD, Sketch, and other design tools and resources to help them quickly go from concept to design.
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Fluent Design: Evolving our Design System

Microsoft has continued to evolve the Fluent Design System’s set of controls, patterns, principles and design guidance since its debut at Build 2017. Get a hands-on look at how 1st-party Microsoft experiences are taking advantage of the system and empowering their users to achieve more by crafting experiences that are natural on each device, intuitive, powerful, engaging, and immersive. Come learn how you can build experiences with the latest Fluent Design features to help your users do more in our multi-device, multi-sensory world 
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What's New for Windows UX Developers

Join us for a lap around the new innovations coming to the Windows ux platform this year. Catch up on the latest UWP APIs and how you can use familiar technologies like XAML and C# to build experiences that leverage the Fluent Design System to captivate your customers and maximize their productivity.
Session

Creating Innovative Experiences for Fluent Design

Explore how to create engaging Windows applications by incorporating effects, animations, and new types of content that form the building blocks for the Fluent Design System. This session showcases new platform capabilities that enable you to craft innovative 2D and 3D experiences using volumetric objects, vector graphics, depth, motion, lights, and materials.
Session

Our Fluent Path to Spatial Computing

As the walls between our digital and physical worlds continue to fade, explore how the latest Fluent System paradigms developed for Desktop today will prepare developers and customers for the spatial experiences of tomorrow.
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Designing Inclusive Experiences

Demystify accessibility by explaining what users need, what developers can do to meet those needs and how accessibility works (from an application through the platform to assistive technology)