IA + Comms

Official resources

• Microsoft Adoption Centre comms resources to help communicate change.
• Adoption Centre assets for SharePoint (Web Archive) Super useful stuff.
• SharePoint Look Book - ready-made site design examples
• SharePoint: IA guidance (examples)
• SharePoint: IA examples
• SharePoint: AIIM guide for IM

Key considerations

• SP: Hub sites, site topology
• SP: Brand center
• SP: Taxonomy / term store

Tools

• Microsoft Clarity + Clarity for SharePoint
• UX tweak card sorting tool

Design + writing references

• Design Systems Repo
• Strategyzer: High impact tools for teams
• Laws of UX
• UI Patterns
• A List Apart - Everyday information architecture
• Smashing Magazine
• Refactoring UI
• GoodUI
• Abby Covert
• The Manual (old but timeless)
• Generic guidance for comms teams: Web Style Guide, Microsoft Writing Style Guide
• Gov’t style guides: AU (+ ATSI), CA, UK (+ Home office), US, NZ, OECD, EU, global list – check local!

See Governance for lifecycle and compliance, UI design for UX principles and design tools, and communities for blogs and feeds.