Introducing SharePoint design ideas

Hi DaveGlanville 

Thanks for your reply, and for the book recommendation! I hear you on no one ever looking the brand guidelines. It's not there yet (after all we have to start somewhere!) but part of the long-term vision for Design Ideas is that it becomes more or less a living brand guideline in collaboration with the brand center. So, it can be configured by admins but will also have enough awareness of your specific site and page styles to independently suggest designs within your standards. 

Some substantive steps we are taking towards this currently include: 

•  Respecting the text styling of your previous section in a majority of your subsequent suggestions (coming soon)
•  pulling Design Ideas images from org assets rather than stock assets whenever possible (in prototyping)

So, all in all-we hear you, are on the same page, and the usage data and feedback we are getting now are essential to getting us to that end goal as quickly as possible. 

 "As such, we need to give users a choice of one or two designs that we have created to meet the guidelines."- could you tell me more about what you mean by this? Do you currently have commonly reused sections?  If you could create your own section templates and design ideas could suggest into those, would that help design ideas feel more customized?