Appian Designer Documentation

Welcome to Appian Designer!

These pages describe how to work in the Appian Designer space, where developers can build, manage, deploy, and monitor applications.

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The pages in this browser are organized into the following categories:

Getting Started: In this category, you'll find out how to take your first steps in Appian Designer by creating an application.
Designer Space: These pages describe the views you'll use in Appian Designer to build, deploy, and monitor applications. These pages can act as both an introduction to the views and a future reference as you build.
Design Objects: These pages contain information about design objects, the building blocks of your applications. The pages in this section describe capabilities common to all types of design objects.
Designer Tools: These pages describe tools you'll find helpful throughout Appian Designer, like the quick search that lets you look for any object in the environment.

Once you've acquainted yourself with the basics of the Appian Designer space, it's time for a deeper dive.

We recommend the following:

Click any link in the Design Objects page to access detailed reference information about that design object. To get hands-on experience using those objects, try out our tutorials.
Design efficient, intuitive, and beautiful applications for your users with the guidance in our SAIL Design System.
Automate even more tasks with digital workers, using the automation capabilities that Appian offers.
Streamline how you deploy applications to different environments with the platform's DevOps capabilities.
Reach more users with your applications—whether those users are offline and mobile or external to your organization.
Extend your applications with programmatic integrations.

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