Microsoft has introduced a new tool in SharePoint called Design Ideas, which helps users create better-looking content using AI-generated suggestions. The tool aims to enhance the layout of posts by offering AI improvements for backgrounds, text formats, and images.
Design Ideas makes creating polished content easier by providing AI-driven suggestions. When users start with a blank text webpart, the tool offers various formatting options to help them get started. As users add more content, the AI summarizes it and suggests matching images, backgrounds, and formatting.
Supported Layouts
At launch, the Design Ideas feature supports several layouts:
– 1 Banner webpart
– 1, 2, and 3 text webparts
– 1, 2, and 3 text and image webparts
– 1 blank text webpart
Microsoft is rolling out the feature gradually to SharePoint users and should be available globally by September 2024. Businesses are encouraged to inform their teams about this new addition.
Future Updates
Microsoft plans to enhance the Design Ideas tool with support for additional web parts and longer texts, including those imported from Microsoft Word. The company aims to continually improve the feature to help users create well-formatted and visually appealing content.
The Design Ideas tool analyzes the text and web parts of the section being edited to suggest new layouts, backgrounds, text formats, and image web parts. Users can click on these suggestions to try different design ideas.
User Interaction
At the start of an editing session, a red dot will appear in the Design Ideas content pane, indicating new suggestions are available. Clicking on this pane will open the Design Ideas panel. SharePoint, known for allowing businesses to create internal social networks for employees, has received numerous updates recently. Design Ideas adds to Microsoft's ongoing efforts to improve the platform's usability and functionality.
