Good News! As a UX designer you do not need to understand SharePoint from technology perspective, you just need to be aware and familiar with its core capabilities to create great user experiences for your end users. Knowing about SharePoint capabilities will help you to talk with your clients, developers, and IT department.

1. Praveen Verma
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2. SharePoint makes it easier for people to work together.
 People can set up Web sites to share information with others
 Manage documents from start to finish,
 And publish reports to help everyone make better decisions.
SharePoint is not a product. It’s a platform.

3. Capabilities

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6. Capabilities: SITES
SharePoint provides a full set of tools to create any kind of site, plus a single
infrastructure that simplifies site management.
• Intuitive content authoring/editing experience (MS Office’ish look)
• Internationalization - Better support for multiple languages
• Better organizing and categorizing of content
• Compliance with XHTML and WCAG 2.0 AA
• Improved search, particularly via FAST Search
• Integration of Web Analytics
• Personalization via Audience targeting
• Cross browser Support

7. Capabilities: SITES

8. Capabilities: COMMUNITIES
SharePoint provides great collaboration tools that anyone can use to share ideas, find
people and expertise, and locate business information. Moreover, it lets you manage
these tools from a single, powerful platform.
• Ability to create detailed user profiles
• Blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, Discussion Forums and activity streams
• Commenting and discussions around content items, and social tagging/bookmarking of content
• Creation of MySites where users can keep track of their own content, and the work they are
doing in certain communities, projects and more

9. Capabilities: COMMUNITIES

10. Capabilities: CONTENT
​SharePoint makes Enterprise Content Management (ECM) easy for everyone. It
combines traditional content management, social capabilities, and powerful search in
one powerful tool.
• Manages documents and other information including access and authoring privileges
• Provides easy way to categorize content for easier search and retrieval (document sets)
• Provides MS Office user experience
• It’s easy to tag content, enforce retention schedules, declare records, and apply legal holds
(compliance).
• Caters to all kind of document needs - documents, records, Web content, and rich media

11. Capabilities: CONTENT

12. Capabilities: SEARCH
​SharePoint provides intranet search, people search, and a platform to build search-
driven applications.
Out of the box SharePoint search includes the ability to:
• Search for information and people, including particular expertise
• Index content and data stored outside of your SharePoint database
• Use your Windows 7 desktop search to find information within SharePoint
• Refine search results based on taxonomy and metadata
• More relevant results and more ways to view the results
The addition of FAST Search brings enhancements, including:
• View thumbnails and previews of content within the result set
• Refine results based on user profile or audience
• The ability to refine search results with filters like Site, Author, Result Type and more

13. Capabilities: SEARCH

14. Capabilities: INSIGHTS
​Insights provides powerful features like interactive dashboards and scorecards. It helps
to mine the information in databases, reports, and business applications to address
specific user needs.
For example, anyone can use Excel Services to publish Microsoft Excel workbooks in SharePoint
2010. From there, an entire team can access and analyze the same data and rest assured that
everyone has the right information.
• Uses tools like Excel to gather and analyze data that is stored in SharePoint
• Uses SharePoint's native Excel Services engine to crunch data and build web-based reports
• Pull together information from different systems and present it in SharePoint
• Create dashboards, scorecards, and other views — making KPIs widely accessible to users

15. Capabilities: INSIGHTS

16. Capabilities: COMPOSITES
​Composites provides building blocks to assemble, connect, and configure collaborative
business solutions.
• Addresses various business needs - from simple sites to complex applications - with custom
solutions.
• Pushes and Pulls data from other business systems (outside SharePoint).
• Enables creation of composite applications — mashups — on the SharePoint platform that pull
together various data and content from different systems, including SharePoint content, to
provide a single location for an employee to work.

17. Additional Reading
What is SharePoint? SharePoint 2010 Essential Training from
lynda.com>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE9TpraPlrE
Microsoft’s SharePoint Site >>
http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/en-us/Pages/default.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd776256(v=office.12).aspx
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 For Dummies
>>http://skillport.books24x7.com/toc.aspx?bookid=34920
Top SharePoint Web Sites >>
http://www.wssdemo.com/Pages/topwebsites.aspx
http://www.topsharepoint.com/
Blog/Others >>
http://vlele.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/top-10-sharepoint-server-2010-features/
Cross Browser Support Testing >>
http://mosshowto.blogspot.com/2009/12/sharepoint-2010-cross-browser.html