SharePoint design and usability
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Summary
- The three (four, or is it five) major factors in SharePoint Design
- Microsoft Teams & / or third-party Microsoft Office Add-Ins
- Example designs
- Implementation: Consultancy plus tools (note that folders and document sets are created with migration) tools
There are many ingredients to a SharePoint design – sites, libraries, document sets, folders, columns, content types, search, navigation, browser UI, third party tools, Office Add-Ins. Given these,:
- how do you ensure documents are findable, fileable, shareable, securable, auditable … and usable?
- what makes a design good or bad?
- what are some of the traps to avoid?
- test drive sample designs.
Tools and consultancy to help you choose a design that works for you.
The three (four, or is it five) major factors in Design
- Metadata
- Structure
- Security: while document level security is available when needed, overall security based on the hierarchical structure SharePoint is always best, so security is one of the drivers of structural design
- User interfaces
- (Search: while vitally important, as long as metadata, structure, and security are designed well, search can be improved over time
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User interfaces: Microsoft Teams & third-party Office Add-Ins
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Example designs
Projects, or legal matters:
- Projects in document sets
- Large projects in a library
- Really large ones in a site
- Good designs / Common bad designs / Sample designs