You're reading from Low-Code Application Development with Appian

Product type Book

Published in Apr 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800205628

Pages 462 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Application Development

Author (1):

Stefan Helzle

Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: No-Code with Appian Quick Apps

2. Chapter 1: Creating an Appian Quick App

3. Chapter 2: Features and Limitations of Appian Quick Apps

4. Chapter 3: Building Blocks of Appian Quick Apps

5. Chapter 4: The Use Cases for Appian Quick Apps

6. Section 2: A Software Project with Appian

7. Chapter 5: Understanding the Business Context

8. Chapter 6: Understanding Business Data in Appian Projects

9. Chapter 7: Understanding Business Processes in Appian Projects

10. Chapter 8: Understanding UX Discovery and the UI in Appian Projects

11. Section 3: Implementing Software

12. Chapter 9: Modeling Business Data with Appian Records

13. Chapter 10: Modeling Business Processes in Appian

14. Chapter 11: Creating User Interfaces in Appian

15. Chapter 12: Task Management with Appian

16. Chapter 13: Reporting and Monitoring with Appian

17. Section 4: The Code in Appian Low-Code

18. Chapter 14: Expressing Logic with Appian

19. Chapter 15: Using Web Services with Appian Integrations

20. Chapter 16: Useful Implementation Patterns in Appian

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Understanding UX discovery

The biggest challenge in designing UIs for an application is to make the right choices. These choices can be about screen layout, the display of data, color, icons, or font. The questions you ask yourself will be based on what selection you want to make.

When you talk to your business stakeholders, they will say things such as the following:

"I need an overview of all the items."
"Can we have more icons?"
"In Excel, we had all fields on one screen and could zoom in and out!"

This will not help you to make selections by any means. This is where UX discovery kicks in. But first, let's have a look at the difference between UX and UI.

User experience

In short, UX is about understanding what a user is doing, why they do it, how they do it, and what their requirements are to perform any action. This also means that UX is not about how things look. It is about how the user is interacting with the...