Designing VS Code’s UX for the Agentic Era | LIVE156
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Joanna will pull back the curtain on how VS Code's design team is quietly retooling the editor for the agentic era — not with a big rewrite, but with hundreds of small, deliberate UX shifts. She'll share real examples, the tradeoffs behind them, and a few things her team got wrong along the way. It's a candid look at evolving a product millions of developers already love. To learn more, please check out these resources: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMvnRYgB5Ac&t=80s * https://aka.ms/VSCode/Release * https://aka.ms/VSCode/Learn * https://aka.ms/VSCode/DesignYT 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀: * Joanna Oikawa * Burke Holland 𝗦𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: This is one of many sessions from the Microsoft Build 2026 event. View even more sessions on-demand and learn about Microsoft Build at https://build.microsoft.com LIVE156 | English (US) Broadcast Stage #MSBuild Chapters: 0:00 - Behind the Scenes of UX Channel and Prototypes 00:02:11 - Transition to Full-Screen Agent Experience 00:03:40 - Clarifying who makes final design decisions 00:04:07 - Introduction of UI Power Hour concept 00:04:51 - Designers actively contributing code and submitting PRs 00:07:26 - Concept of 'depth vs breadth' introduced to describe expertise balance 00:09:35 - Discussion on balancing product design through complementary perspectives 00:10:20 - Emphasis on validation loops and accountability in design decisions 00:12:53 - Segment wrap-up and transition to the next topic on Doom
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