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UI / UX Design process for PowerBI
Hi Walls99.
It has been 2 years since my forst post, so I will say that Microsoft has made some incremental improvements, but there will still be some barriers. I suggest digging into the tool and playing around. Some of you patters may be easy to replicate and some may require some alternative options. Last time I was in there (I support a broader slice of the org than I did back then), which was months ago, there was still a limited selection of typefaces. I think we looked into webfonts a while back and couldn't get that to work. The repitoire of basic design tools is there, but any sort of custom shape is not. The grid is still tricky and designing for mobile gets even more dicey for layout. "Layers" are there, but they are clunky. Generally we have been able to fake a lot of things to make them conform to our patterns, but it requires some creative thinking and plenty of googling. Your designers will end up gaining knowlege of how to minpulate data, which I think is a bonus.
Thank you for your reply. We aren't using it yet but I've seen some demos. To me, it seems like the design could get close enough to our design system, but probably not perfect with the design tools as they are offered. Do your designers do all of their design in this tool or do they start in a different digital tool to mock up and then finalize in BI?