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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.

Design Review on Create a list in SharePoint Online

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.

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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.

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