About Appian Designer

Appian Designer is where you build applications using a combination of AI-assisted development and manual configuration. You can create, manage, deploy, and monitor applications from a single environment.

To access Appian Designer, you must be a member of the Designers system group. Contact your system administrator if you need access.

Plan before you build

Before you start building design objects, consider using Appian Composer to plan your application and build alignment among stakeholders. Appian Composer helps teams translate business requirements into an application plan—defining data models, personas, processes, and user stories—so everyone agrees on what you're building before development begins.

Once you have an application plan, you can:

• Generate foundational objects from the plan and then configure them further with Composer or on your own.
• Use Composer to build out your application from the user stories generated by your application plan.
• Use the plan to guide your own manual building in Appian Designer.

You can also skip planning entirely and start building immediately—with Composer or on your own.

Get started in Appian Designer

To start building, create an application and begin adding design objects. The following resources can help orient you:

• Create Applications: Learn what an application is and how to set one up.
• Design Objects: Understand the building blocks of your applications and how they work together.
• Build View: Explore the primary workspace for building and managing design objects.

Extend and deploy your applications

Once you're comfortable with the basics, explore these areas:

• Design efficient, intuitive applications for your users with the SAIL Design System.
• Automate tasks with digital workers using Appian's automation capabilities.
• Streamline how you deploy applications to different environments with the platform's DevOps capabilities.
• Reach more users—whether those users are offline and mobile or external to your organization.
• Extend your applications with programmatic integrations.

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