Category: Useful Bits
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Staged Input Form with Smooth Transitions
This form avoids overwhelming the user by being split up into digestible chunks. An attractive resize transition between stages catches the eye and maintains engagement. The form inputs take place on a single screen, with the animation being handled by a separate screen. When the user needs to advance between sections, the animation screen is…
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Reading Progress Component
Ever seen a website where it shows you how far you have read through it’s content, by having a small progress bar somewhere? This is possible in Power Apps, through the use of a gallery and some timers. On our canvas we have two timers: The first is running constantly in the background, waiting for…
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Adaptive Colour Scaler
I built this proof of concept as a way of allowing app users configure their app theme colours. I had a use case where admins would set up ‘events’ via an admin portal. The event would then be interacted with by end users via a mobile app. Each event would have distinct theming, livery, and…
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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…