When your application or webpart requires a modal dialogue, you might use the package @microsoft/sp-dialog based on this tutorial on how to use it. There is nothing wrong with this solution but something out of time.
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Design Review: “Create a list” experience on SharePoint Online
First of all, I like the new “Create a list” experience. The organisation of all the different possibilities is excellent now.
This wizard-like experience allows you to create list quickly and guides you to what you want to do. Also, it comes with great new features such as create a new plan based on existing across all site collections in your tenant.
The base idea of how it looks now is promising, but there are some design and user experience issues I like to uncover in this design review.
AI-driven Accessibility helper for images in SharePoint Online
Recently a new feature has been added to the authoring process in SharePoint online. This new feature helps you to define appropriate alternative text descriptions for your images on pages. In general to specify alternative text for images is possible the first time in SharePoint history. Previously only the title of an image could be defined.
When a new image gets inserted on a page, the image gets analysed by a background service, which assumes the content of the image and returns an appropriate description. Through the help of pattern recognition and artificial intelligence, the returned values are pretty accurate, at least with the pictures I tested this feature so far.
How to handle typography in SPFx projects with spfx-uifabric-themes
The first version was only planned to give people a more comfortable use for theming tokens in SPFx projects. Today I released a new version that improves the typography in a way that Office UI Fabric currently not provides.
This new release is mainly targeted for accessibility and gives the ability to define custom classes based on the outlined typography.