Wireframes

Wireframes are an awesome tool for being able to bring your user journey to life, but also to communicate your thinking to your end users. We’ve all heard the saying “A picture paints a thousand words”, and wireframes do exactly that. They allow you to start planning out what screens you will need in order to achieve the goals defined in your user experience mapping. But now we can a little bit deeper and start thinking about how we’re going to lay out the screens.

There are tools out there which allow you to develop wireframes, for example Figma (figma.com), where Power Apps can read the wireframe and construct the app for you. Alternatively, I commonly use something as simple as PowerPoint with a number of rectangles on a slide to articulate where I see various controls being.

If I am planning a Canvas App, then I will go as low as what controls I want where, and doing it in a software solution means I can easily move them around. This allows me...