Introducing Power Platform’s Intelligent Apps Plan Designer: Build Enterprise Solutions with Confidence

In September 2024, Microsoft launched early access to a revolutionary Copilot-powered workspace in Power Apps—the Intelligent Apps Plan Designer. Designed to help makers tackle nearly any business problem, this innovative tool empowers users to design and generate robust, scalable solutions. Following highly positive feedback, Microsoft is excited to bring the Plan Designer capabilities to public preview in 2025.

This new experience transforms the way low-code solutions are created, combining AI-driven guidance with a deeply collaborative and iterative approach. Makers can now better connect business requirements with the solutions they are building, ensuring alignment and adaptability throughout the development process.

Key Features of the Intelligent Apps Plan Designer:

1. Start with a Plan The Plan Designer enables developers to kickstart their projects by focusing on a well-defined business problem. With Copilot’s assistance, users can design user roles, capture requirements, and generate the foundations of their solution—all within a guided, interactive workspace.
2. Iterative and Collaborative Design Solutions evolve as business needs change. Makers can refine user roles, adjust requirements, update the data model, or modify proposed user experiences at any time. The plan lives alongside the solution, providing a consistent understanding of the problem and requirements throughout its lifecycle.
3. AI-Powered Solution Building Leveraging Microsoft’s cutting-edge AI capabilities, the Plan Designer helps create: Clear user stories based on business needs, An optimized relational data model and Pre-scaffolded Power Apps and suggested Power Automate Cloud Flows.
4. Seamless Connection Between Business and Technology The tool bridges the gap between business challenges and technical solutions, ensuring developers maintain focus on the problem they’re solving while building enterprise-ready applications.
5. Empowering Citizen Developers and Professionals Alike Whether you’re a professional developer or a citizen maker, the Plan Designer helps you design well-structured, adaptable, and collaborative solutions. It brings professional-grade design practices to citizen developers and enhances productivity for pro developers

Why This Matters

The Plan Designer addresses one of the most common challenges in low-code development: poorly designed solutions due to insufficient planning. By embedding a structured, AI-assisted approach into the solution-building process, it ensures that every app starts with a clear plan and a strong foundation.

For citizen developers, it’s a game-changer, providing guidance and best practices for creating scalable, maintainable applications. For professionals, it reduces the need to clean up poorly designed apps and accelerates the development of robust enterprise solutions.

With this tool, Microsoft is reshaping how organizations approach low-code development by enabling a collaborative, iterative, and adaptive process that prioritizes solving real business problems.

The Intelligent Apps Plan Designer is coming to public preview in 2025, marking a significant step forward for Power Platform users. Whether you’re building your first app or designing enterprise-grade solutions, this tool will revolutionize your experience.

Stay tuned as Power Platform continues to lead the way in low-code innovation! 🚀