So many layers of information, no connections between them – Microsoft SharePoint Review

I have to use this platform for project management across a large institution, and this intranet is just really poorly designed. I need to be able to work on up to 10 projects with their own SharePoint pages (connected to respective teams). My thought was to use the SharePoint site as a home base to keep track of key tasks, house our living document library, and lists of key stakeholders. I was able to set all this up on the desktop online version of SharePoint. But I’m absolutely appalled that there is no launch page for my SharePoint that I can customize with relevant pages. Instead is a news tab that is effectively useless because my team and I cannot access our project SharePoint pages! I have to click through three headings to enter a search for the sites I need. Preferably, I would be able to see tiles or a list of sites (that I select, not just recent sites as projects will change and I will need to customize my Home Screen to reflect what projects I’m working on). Really disappointed in Microsoft for this. It’s easier to access the sharepoint sites going through the Word or Excel apps, which is nuts because that defeats the purpose of having a centralized location to AVOID a document dump. Come on Microsoft, I had a Zune. I know you can do better interface than this.
Review by ccocossa on Microsoft SharePoint.