Ralf Groene is the corporate vice president of Design Windows and Devices at Microsoft. Groene's new role started in March, but he only updated his LinkedIn profile recently.

And yes, Microsoft is even trying to make devices attractive, cool and desirable, top executives say.. In this photo taken July 3, 2014, Ralf Groene, chief designer for the Microsoft Surface ...

Just a few days ahead of the launch of the Intel-powered Surface Pro, I got a chance to sit down with Ralf Groene, Microsoft's Director of Industrial Design, ...

Last week, I sat down with Ralf Groene, senior creative director for Surface, at Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, Washington, to talk about the development of Surface 3 and its evolution over ...

I glanced away from the 28-inch glowing Studio display and spotted a familiar face. Ralf Groene, Microsoft’s head of industrial design, was standing alone, staring almost wistfully into space.

“Everyone we showed had the same reaction: Whoa, that’s cool,” says Ralf Groene, head of industrial design for Microsoft devices. “And then some people got concerned.

How companies are keeping handwriting alive in digital age 04:24. Deep inside Microsoft's brand-new device laboratory outside Seattle, a team of highly skilled designers are working to perfect ...

Making the Surface smaller was no small feat, according to Ralf Groene, Microsoft’s longtime head of design. Groene walks me through part of Building 87 on Microsoft’s campus, ...

Before Ralf Groene helped devise the look and feel of Microsoft's Surface tablet, he designed food — or "food concepts," he says, for people on the go. Among them: dried noodles that come ...

This year marks ten years of the Microsoft Surface family of tablets, laptops, and hybrid computing devices. We caught up with Microsoft’s Ralf Groene, corporate vice president of Design, Windows and ...

REDMOND — Before Ralf Groene helped devise the look and feel of Microsoft’s Surface tablet, he designed food — or “food concepts,” he says, for people on the go. Among them: dried ...

REDMOND, Wash. — Before Ralf Groene helped devise the look and feel of Microsoft’s Surface tablet, he designed food — or “food concepts,” he says, for people on the go. Among them: dried ...