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Published inSep 2023
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Matthew Weston
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Matthew Weston

Matthew is a Microsoft 365 & SharePoint specialist from the Midlands in the United Kingdom. He has spent several years working in various Consultancy roles. Matthew is the Managing Director of Vantage 365, which fuels his love of working on projects surrounding Microsoft 365, especially those that involve SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Power Apps, and Power Automate. This could be helping businesses find solutions for their problems or offering training to help people use these technologies better. Matthew leads the Black Country Power Apps & Power Automate user group, and the Office 365 & SharePoint User Group in the West Midlands. Matt is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in the field of Business Applications.
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Elisa Bárcena Martín
Elisa Bárcena Martín
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Elisa Bárcena Martín

Elisa Bárcena Martín is currently a project leader at LogiRAIL, having previously worked as a business apps specialist at Intelequia and a project analyst at GlaxoSmithKline. As a Power Platform enthusiast with more than 3 years of experience with the Power Platform, she has steadily grown from her initial role as a developer into her project leader position. She is a scientist and teacher by vocation, loving process optimization and believing in continuous improvement and learning.
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Plan your user journey

So many times, I have seen the user journey neglected by budding app developers. Again, I’ll hold my hands up and say that sometimes I’m so excited by the prospect of what my app could be, that I just dive straight in and start creating. This has then meant that I’ve ended up missing key considerations about what my user journey through the app is going to be.

What I’ve found more useful though is planning the user journey before I start writing. So what does this mean to you as a developer? It means that you need to first consider what the user needs to do to achieve an effect, e.g., my user needs to use the app to create a new entry in a system, or my user needs to use the app to update an existing entry.

Once you have your key activities noted, you can then start to plan how the users achieve that. Keep in mind that you don’t need premium tools for a basic journey; quite often, I just use something as simple as PowerPoint...

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Published in: Sep 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781801070645

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Matthew Weston

Matthew is a Microsoft 365 & SharePoint specialist from the Midlands in the United Kingdom. He has spent several years working in various Consultancy roles. Matthew is the Managing Director of Vantage 365, which fuels his love of working on projects surrounding Microsoft 365, especially those that involve SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Power Apps, and Power Automate. This could be helping businesses find solutions for their problems or offering training to help people use these technologies better. Matthew leads the Black Country Power Apps & Power Automate user group, and the Office 365 & SharePoint User Group in the West Midlands. Matt is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in the field of Business Applications.
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Elisa Bárcena Martín

Elisa Bárcena Martín is currently a project leader at LogiRAIL, having previously worked as a business apps specialist at Intelequia and a project analyst at GlaxoSmithKline. As a Power Platform enthusiast with more than 3 years of experience with the Power Platform, she has steadily grown from her initial role as a developer into her project leader position. She is a scientist and teacher by vocation, loving process optimization and believing in continuous improvement and learning.
Read more about Elisa Bárcena Martín