Express Design: From idea to an app in minutes

Introduction

This Build 2022 Microsoft announced a new great idea that will speed up app development and POC creation.

Express Design

Express Design translates notes, pictures or just a handwritten piece of paper to a fully fledged app, and then allows you to modify it further to better suit your needs.

How does Express Design work?

Express Design accepts a broad range of inputs—PDFs, sketches on the whiteboard, a screenshot of a UI from a legacy app, and even professionally-designed assets in Figma. The most amazing one, in my opinion, though, is the paper form. All you need to do, is sketch your idea for an app on a piece of paper, and then take a picture of your design. Express Design will read the information from the picture and turn it into an app. 

Express Design creating an app from a sheet of paper.

Image Source: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-express-design-in-power-apps-converts-images-and-designs-to-apps-in-seconds/

Updating your legacy apps

Another way Express Design can help your organization, is by offering quicker and smoother updates from legacy apps. All you need is a screenshot from an old app and Express Design will create a suggestion for an updated, modern version.

Can't wait?

You don't have to! You can try out Express Design already, by navigating here.

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