Usability Enhancing features in SharePoint 2010

Some of usability features that I came across in SharePoint 2010:

You can click on the Edit (Page Ribbon button) and add content inline while viewing the page. Use the format Text to help in formatting the font and color of the text.

The Insert Ribbon at the Edit mode gives a nice set of capabilities that enhances the authoring capabilities. 

You can now,

• Add an external Link, On click of which will browse the page to that link.
• Point to an Internal SharePoint List Item. To do this just type [[ in the Edit mode. You can follow the intellisense to the required list item. In view mode, On click of it, will show the List item in a Ajax enabled dialog. Hence keeps you within the context of the page and also showing the content of the List item. You Upload a document in a dialog and provide the link to it.
• Upload an image into one of the document libraries from local computer and get them rendered inline on the page.
• Link an image from an external (Internet) source and render them inline on the page.

The Designer ribbon gets enabled when working with Images. You could do some basic digital manipulation on images like setting the aspect ratio, borders & positioning on the page.

These are some of the capabilities that has made Rich content authoring in SharePoint 2010 easy.