How much time, money and effort are you spending developing similar functionality across your applications?
Local government are under pressure to rapidly produce internal and external applications. These applications need to be consistent, accessible, and quick to produce. Digital teams are constrained by time, budget, and internal resources. At Marra, we have created a solution to solve these challenges using Microsoft Power Platform.
We have created and continue to maintain a comprehensive low-code Power Apps component library. Our free, open-source library contains components that meet the common requirements needed in local government applications. This includes being compliant with Government Design System, GDS and meet the WCAG 2.2 Accessibility Guidelines.
Some key benefits of the component library:
- Faster app delivery
- Consistency
- Simple maintenance and updates
- Built-in accessibility
These pre-built, configurable components can be reused across multiple applications, allowing App Makers to focus on building applications that meet business needs instead of performing unnecessarily repetitive development tasks.
Creating accessible components
Ensuring technology is inclusive is critical to Marra. The components address common accessibility concerns required by local government, such as tab ordering and browser auto-complete.
Ensuring consistency across applications
How confident are you that all your applications look and feel the same to all your users? The components have been built with consistency in mind to enable local government to provide a cohesive user experience. App Makers can use a centralised theme across all components to quickly ensure standardised styling and branding across applications.
Built-in form validation
Handling user input validation can be very time-consuming across applications. Our components include built-in validation for common input scenarios. This improves the way App Makers foresee and manage user input validation errors throughout their applications and provides a clear and consistent way in which errors are shown to users.
Cross-device functionality
It’s likely that your users will be accessing the applications across a range of devices, so we have considered responsiveness in our components. The components in our library have been designed to be responsive to different screen sizes, reducing the effort required by App Makers and improving user experience.
Want to try it out?
While this library won’t solve all the challenges faced by local government, it will help build accessible applications that are consistent across the brand and provide a great user experience. The components can be easily integrated into new and existing Power Platform applications. Our component library is free to use within Power Platform, and you can access the library here.
If you would like a demo of the library from one of our team then get in touch.
Written by Lauren Whitenstall, Associate App Maker
