Practical AI: Plan Designer and Vibe
Power Apps continues to evolve its AI-assisted development tools, giving makers more ways to go from idea to working solution faster than ever. In this video, Kylie Kiser walks through two standout tools, Plan Designer and Vibe, demonstrating how each interprets a business problem and generates the apps, data models, and workflows to solve it.
Key Takeaways
- Plan Designer generates a full solution blueprint from a business problem: Including user requirements, processes, a recommended data model, and suggested technology, all with Copilot available to refine and adjust along the way.
- Makers still drive the decisions: Plan Designer suggests apps and workflows, but you must actively choose to create them. Canvas apps, model-driven apps, and flows can all be generated, but they require review before use.
- Solution prefix and organizational standards matter: By default, Plan Designer uses the out-of-the-box solution prefix. Makers should configure their default solution to ensure tables and components align with organizational naming conventions.
- Vibe goes further by generating fully custom code apps: Unlike Plan Designer’s Canvas or model-driven apps, Vibe produces a code-based app that can be reviewed and edited directly. It also supports agent creation, which Plan Designer does not.
- Vibe is still in preview with open questions: Licensing, security, and deployment processes for Vibe’s code apps are not yet fully defined, so it’s best used for exploration and prototyping at this stage.
- Both tools are great for requirements gathering and ideation: Even if the generated output isn’t production-ready, these tools help teams visualize solutions, validate data models, and accelerate early-stage planning.
