Amanda Yang is a designer currently creating joy at Microsoft, previously at Discovery Inc., RISD Design Guild, and the RISD Museum. She looks to solve problems and craft experiences through thoughtful exploration and delivering execution. Her interests and skills include branding, storytelling, and editorial design.

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Microsoft Store

Designing discovery experiences and ways to bring more awareness to the Store where users can browse, purchase, and download apps, games, and entertainment.

As part of driving awareness, I designed and created the illustrations for the Store’s About page.

Ongoing. More upon request

Widgets

Designed and co-authored 3rd-party widget guidance for developers, working directly with Spotify and Meta to launch new widgets showcased at Microsoft Build. Leveraged Adaptive Cards as the platform to build new widgets easily.

Evolved the silhouette of the widget board from a two-column to three-column design that allows users more customization and space for dynamic content.

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Live Captions

An app-agnostic captioning experience built into Windows for anyone who is hard of hearing or finds captions useful for activities like following along in a meeting or reading subtitles when watching videos.

Formulated the intial experience and framework for Windows 10 before it became a key accessibility feature in Windows 11.

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Nothing Outside of the Text

My thesis explores language and its relationship to myself and to our unconscience biases in the way in which language can shape the way we think. It is a cumulation of my time at RISD and a showcase of several design projects and essays I wrote on the subject. Read the full book here.

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Food Network Kitchen

2020 Webby Award Winner Food Network Kitchen showcases thousands of recipes, classic Food Network shows, live, and on-demand cooking classes to users.

Designed payment flow for purchasing a subscription for the app on iOS, Android, Web, and FireTV platforms working closely with the Design Director and VP of Product.