Top 20 Essential Skills for ArcGIS Experience Builder

by Thomas Coughlin, Michael Gaigg, Alix Vézina

Overview

App-building has never been easier.

Top 20 Essential Skills for ArcGIS Experience Builder guides readers step by step through the process of creating visually stunning and highly functional apps. Whether you are a beginner or experienced GIS user, this comprehensive guide will equip you with the skills needed.

These bite-sized chapters demonstrate how to create various types of apps to visualize data, perform analysis, explore 3D environments, and more.

Top 20 Essential Skills for ArcGIS Experience Builder includes

• Easy-to-understand, step-by-step tutorials,
• Simple instructions with plenty of screenshots showing what to do, and
• Resources that provide readers with self-paced learning opportunities.

By the end of this book, you’ll know

• ArcGIS Experience Builder interface and how to create layouts,
• Best practices from a design perspective,
• How to create simple apps that allow you to perform a number of useful activities,
• How to set up powerful tools for conducting analysis and gaining valuable insights from your data, and
• How to share your app and optimize it for mobile use.

Top 20 Essential Skills for ArcGIS Experience Builder is perfect for ArcGIS users who want to understand ArcGIS Experience Builder, what kind of apps they can make, and how to make them look good.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781589487949
Publisher:	Esri Press
Publication date:	07/29/2025
Series:	Top 20 Essential Skills
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Thomas Coughlin is a senior product engineering writer responsible for writing about ArcGIS Experience Builder and ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud at Esri. He earned a degree in environmental science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Michael Gaigg is a group UI engineer manager responsible for designing and building front-end solutions at Esri. Throughout his three-plus decades of web design experience, he has guided the creation of countless apps from conceptualization to implementation. Gaigg is also the author of the Esri Press book (2023), Designing Map Interfaces: Patterns for Building Effective Map Apps.

Alix Vézina is a web development project engineer at Esri, where she delivers innovative web mapping tools for various industries. She’s passionate about customer success and combines her knowledge with practical experience to help solve problems and empower others to develop impactful applications that provide essential functionality.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

How to use this book

1 – Exploring ArcGIS Experience Builder basics

2 – Planning and building a great experience

3 – Making an app with a map

4 – Building page navigation within your app

5 – Using selections to manage and edit data

6 – Building a finder app with a well-designed list view and details view

7 – Filtering data using attribute and spatial filters

8 – Changing the theme of your app

9 – Adding a landing page with search capability and a featured items list

10 – Making your app mobile-ready

11 – Exploring 3D data

12 – Building a dashboard app

13 – Building a website

14 – Tracking audience analytics

15 – Embedding apps

16 – Creating an app to support incident preparedness

17 – Creating an app to keep the public informed

18 – Building a data explorer app

19 – Printing your map

20 – Creating an editing experience to collect asset and inspection data

Appendix