Deep Dive Into App Experience with Clay Wesener
Episode description
FULL SHOW NOTES
https://podcast.nz365guy.com/99
- Personal and professional background – growing up in Australia, hobbies outside of work
- Career journey, joining Microsoft product team, working on PowerApps and working with the original team at Canvas Apps, starting as a Microsoft Partner before joining Microsoft
- Key pillars/various moving parts of the Power Platform team
- Owning the UI, holding the constraints of the upper-level nav and the left-hand nav of the system and what the maker has control over
- What is the App Experience and what the team think about when designing the App Experience for the makers
- What the App Experience team looks at when it comes to guiding principles
- Tidying up old legacy versions – is it part of the transition to Power Platform?
- Microsoft’s key focuses in the Power Platform moving to the end of 2019
- Possibility of PowerApps becoming unrecognizable as a Microsoft software, especially with PCF coming to market
- Thoughts on the possibility of creating any type of business application in a white-label experience
- Why isn’t React supported in PCF? Why Microsoft didn’t just go and support some third-party control framework
- Making theming and branding easier in PowerApps
- Type of use cases of unique controls where there’s no need to shift to the platform
- What’s new in model-driven maker experience
- Creating a new field on the fly to be included in the maker experience
- Reusable Canvas Apps components – background and thoughts around it
- How the team is bringing Canvas Apps and model-driven apps together
- Intent to provide URL and put off creating a top-level nav in Power Apps
- What’s coming up in the next release notes
- Thoughts on Microsoft’s goal of 10M active users on Power Platform
- Offline access – what to look forward to
RESOURCES
- Make PowerApps – https://make.powerapps.com/
- PowerApps admin centre – https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/
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