Six amazing 2024 SharePoint design ideas for your intranet
- John Scott
SharePoint is a highly flexible and scalable solution that continues to be the main base technology for intranets and other sites aimed at employees. Because you can build a site and page out of individual web parts – effectively the building bricks of SharePoint – it means you can create a multitude of different SharePoint designs to meet a wide variety of employee business needs.
Because modern SharePoint page design does provide so much choice and it is easy to put a page together, sometimes intranet teams struggle to know where to start. We often get asked by customers for SharePoint site ideas to get them started or even just to provide a little inspiration.
In this post we’re going to explore some specific SharePoint page design ideas and examples that can add value to your SharePoint intranet in 2024.
Where can I find SharePoint design ideas?
Customers are often looking for different SharePoint site design ideas. You’ve come to the right place, as you will find some in posts like these but you can also see some actual SharePoint site design examples in our collection of SharePoint intranet examples that we have implemented for our customers.
The SharePoint look book from Microsoft itself is also another excellent source with dozens of examples of modern SharePoint page design.
What are the different elements to consider in SharePoint design?
In modern SharePoint page design, there are several elements that will influence how you put your site and page together:
- The purpose of your page and what it is trying to achieve, for example whether it is trying to help employees keep up to date, acting as a source of knowledge, or supporting a community.
- Your overall corporate brand and tone of voice, ultimately meeting your brand guidelines.
- Usability and accessibility, always ensuring your SharePoint design is fully focused on user needs and the wider employee experience.
- Any SharePoint templates that are in use across the site to drive a consistent experience for users and to meet your internal publication standards.
- The web parts that are available to you – for example you may have additional features using a solution like Lightspeed365 or even using custom-developed web parts.
- Any other resources or pieces of content that you may want to highlight or link to.
In practice, all these elements come together to determine the structure, layout and look and feel of a SharePoint page.
Six inspiring SharePoint site design examples
Here are six excellent SharePoint site ideas to kick-start your SharePoint design. Some of these are based on the real designs that we have deployed for our customers. They include SharePoint web parts available out of the box, Lightspeed365 features and even some custom web parts.
Use these SharePoint designs for inspiration to kick start you SharePoint ideas, or even as the starting point for your own pages. While we feature mainly homepages here some of these SharePoint page design ideas can be applied to other landing pages right across your intranet.
1. A community or social SharePoint design
This more social and community-based SharePoint site design example is designed for a media or technology company where social and community interaction is key for employee engagement. The site design prominently features community events prominently to encourage attendance. Meanwhile a “Conversations” feed surfaces updates from Viva Engage, encouraging participation. External social interactions are represented to with an aggregated feed of updates from channels like LinkedIn and Instagram, providing a nice balance to internal discussions and keeping employees informed on how the company is going to market. This design is all wrapped up in a highly distinctive style and branding.
2. An operational, uncluttered SharePoint design
This attractive SharePoint design aimed at a healthcare organization brings a simple and uncluttered design that aims to provide organizational and operational updates in a way that doesn’t overwhelm busy staff, especially those working on the frontline in clinical roles. It brings the latest personalized updates for busy staff, both through a hero web part for major items and also with featured news. It also has a noticeboard feed with relevant updates from across the organization. The personalized “My Quick links” app launcher helps staff to reach the tools they need to use every day.
3. Custom SharePoint homepage design centred on unique business processes and needs
This SharePoint intranet homepage serving a diversified racing, engineering and manufacturing group is crafted around specific business processes. Not only does it have a sleek and elegant, highly customised design, but there are custom web parts and features designed to support specific processes and needs unique to the Group. These include the ability to search for spare parts (“parts finder”), complete personalised tasks, meet upcoming company milestones and even watch races live. Employees can also access more traditional intranet features with the ability to view news, search a people directory and also a knowledge base of “How Do I” information.
4. A SharePoint design with multiple integrations
This SharePoint design template could be applied across any type of organisation. It includes multiple integrations with key enterprise systems such as ServiceNow or Workday so that many everyday HR and IT tasks can be completed without leaving the intranet, an example of the “everything intranet.” As well as a personalised app launcher, the Viva Connections dashboard enables simple tasks to be completed with reminders of outstanding items. Meanwhile the middle section includes deeper integrations with policy management software such as Xoralia to show polices to be read, as well as a learning platform like Zensai (formerly LMS365), with learning to be completed, as well as an overview of the status of training across the team. There are also further integrations with Microsoft 365 with a Viva Engage feed as well as Microsoft Teams, with the intranet in this screenshot viewed through Teams.
5. A balanced SharePoint design available via Microsoft Teams
This attractive and eye-catching modern SharePoint design is created for a fashion company where branding is distinctive and important. This homepage is designed to help maximise investment in Microsoft 365 and also be directly in the flow of everyday work. It is available through Microsoft Teams where most employees spend their working day, and also has a Microsoft Viva Engage feed to keep up on updates. It provides a great balance between internal communications and getting things done. A hero area and news feed delivers relevant messaging and updates, while cards representing common tasks via the Viva Connections dashboard as well as personalized links to apps and tools support employee productivity.
6. A SharePoint design that supports personal productivity
This SharePoint design is aimed at an educational establishment and is designed to help teachers and other employees navigate the busy working week, supporting personal productivity and driving efficiency. This SharePoint site design is heavily personalised with the ability to view timetable items, recent documents, links to key apps, follow key sites and more. There’s also an emphasis on access to self-serve resources to help staff complete tasks, for example with a FAQs web part and a box to search a collection of “How Do I” resources that provide authoritative procedural information.
Need more SharePoint site ideas?
SharePoint is an excellent platform with a lot of flexibility around the design. If you need any additional help with SharePoint design or you’re looking for more SharePoint ideas for your intranet or employee communication site, then get in touch!
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