Hi, my name is

Václav Vančura

Cross-platform designer and developer, ex-Microsoft design lead, seasoned game developer.

With over seven years at Microsoft, my UI/UX design journey has been marked by a mix of design innovation and technical development. I led a team of designers working on Microsoft Visual Studio for Mac and worked closely with designers and engineers of Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code.

Accessibility Improvements in Visual Studio 2019 for Mac

The release of Visual Studio 2019 for Mac includes numerous developments in the color representation of icons and warning and error status messages.

January 13, 2021

Designing UIs for Developer Tools

Together with my fellow designers from Microsoft DevDiv – the Developer Division – we joined Kendra Havens from the .NET team for a nice one-hour talk on how we design developer tools at Microsoft.

August 25, 2022

Transforming Design Collaboration: How I introduceed Figma to Microsoft

As a senior designer at Xamarin (later acquired by Microsoft), I played a crucial role in adopting and developing Figma within Microsoft.

June 24, 2020

macOS Big Sur Icon Template

The annual Apple developer conference WWDC has just started – one of the highlights is the redesign of the macOS user interface, which besides other things, introduces a brand new style of application icons.