Deep Dive Into App Experience with Clay Wesener

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• 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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