Category: Desktop Apps
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Project Manager Tool (Kanban Board)
I rebuilt a popular project management webapp inside Power Apps for fun. I wanted to demonstrate the UI and UX potential of the platform and challenge myself to emulate as much of the usability of the original as possible. One of my favourite aspects of this app was not the vibrant UI or detailed interface…
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User Self-Serve Refresh Utility
I built this tool to enable some end-users to refresh their Power BI data without granting them membership to the workspace. They needed to upload files at inconsistent times and wanted a way to trigger a refresh without being dependent on another team. I ended up building this into a solution that could easily be…
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Self-Serve Extract Builder
This is a concept I made to enable users to self-serve an extract from a Power BI semantic model, in the same way certain tools sit on top of a database and provide a drag-and-drop interface to process big data into extracts for onward analysis. I wanted to see if an intuitive interface could be…
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Side Scrolling Platformer
Just a little fund side-project, trying to create an ‘endless runner’-type game in Power Apps. The game relies on several background layers attached to a timer to create a parallax effect to add depth and motion: The timer can be ‘sped up’ to increase the speed of the game, and by extension the difficulty. This…
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Progressive Blur Scroll Concept
This is a smooth and visually impressive method of catching the eye to some important content, before fading to the background to allow the content to take centre stage. This concept uses the HTML text control to implement CSS blur in Power Apps. We can actually manipulate this to use a ‘gradient blur’, such that…