Design Guidelines

Apply Your Corporate Brand Across the Power Platform

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The Importance of Consistent, Repeatable Design

Make Your Power Apps, Power Pages and Power BI Reports Easier to Use and Consume

Applying professional visual design principles that align with your corporate brand is essential when building applications that reflect your identity and values. A strong visual design, grounded in brand guidelines, ensures consistency across all touchpoints — strengthening brand recognition and trust. By integrating elements like logo usage, typography, color palettes, and imagery, developers create a cohesive experience that resonates with users. This not only enhances usability and accessibility but also reinforces the brand’s messaging.

  • Easier to Use
  • Easier to Build
  • Easier to Support

Easier to Use

  • Easy identification of the branded source
  • Clear indication of purpose enhances the user experience
  • Consistent application navigation and user interface elements breed familiarity

Easier to Build

  • Components are pre-built and pre-approved
  • Updates can be applied quickly and efficiently

Easier to Support

  • Enforces best practices for development and lifecycle management
  • Includes information on integrations, versions, data sources
  • Maintains governances, security and access controls

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Benefits of a Design Guidelines Package

 

Consistency Across Platform Apps

Define and apply corporate standards across the entire suite of Power Platform tools.

 

Organization Engagement

More easily obtain approvals from communications and external engagement resources who participate in setting the standards.

 

Re-usability

Central, modularized CSS and Bootstrap components can be applied across entire website and web portal solutions.

 

Robust Governance

A templated approach minimizes complexity and enforces established best practices. Updates can be done once at the source and applied to all downstream applications.

 

Data Security, Sovereignty & Integrity

Modularizing the approach allows the specialists to focus on the development of each component. Business users then can focus on the workflow.

 

Maximize Investment

Get the most out of your Microsoft Power Platform investment featuring back-office, portal and public-facing implementations.

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Why Partner with Strathcona Solutions?

Faster Delivery

Ascent implementations are completed in as little as one business week!

Depending on the availability of the key client personnel.

Advanced Microsoft Technology Skills

We're not joking when we say we understand Microsoft's products intimately. Our team members were the developers of the original MS Power Pages application. Case Management is our preferred development arena.

Trusted Advisors

We've continued our deep partnership with Microsoft and maintain our intimate knowledge of Microsoft technologies and our working relationships.

Systemic Approach

Our rigorous methodology includes templates, checklists and best-practice guides so you can benefit from our implementation experience.

Training & Documentation

Give your administrators hands-on training from experienced platform specialists. And for your creators, makers and citizen developers, instructor-led training leads to successful journeys building apps, automating processes and analyzing data.

Ongoing Support

Strathcona Solutions monitors the changes to the Microsoft platform and can provide regular quarterly updates.

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Key Outcomes

 

Increased Engagement

  • Building within the pre-approved branding and design guidelines fosters identity and promotes support across organization.
 

Established Governance

  • Having corporate guidelines for the power platform design elements requires the approval from IT, Comms, and Engagement teams. This authorization promotes cooperation and standardization.
 

Optimized Technology

  • Quickly build products using templates and pre-built web elements.