User Flow
The path someone takes through a feature from start to finish, including the decisions and conditions along the way. In Specsight, drawn automatically from that feature’s scenarios.
A user flow describes the path someone takes through a feature from start to finish: the steps along the way, the decisions the product makes, and the different places the journey can end. It is the shape of a feature rather than a list of the things it does.
In Specsight, you reach a user flow from the feature map. The map shows your product’s main features and how they connect. Click a feature to see its user flow. If the feature is split into sub-features, you first see a smaller map of them, and clicking one opens its flow.
Because it is drawn from the scenarios rather than sketched by hand, a user flow cannot show behaviour the spec does not evidence, and it changes when the product does. That is the difference between a whiteboard diagram from last quarter and a picture of the journey as it works now.
Related terms
- SPEC
Feature Map
A visual map of how features in a product depend on one another. Used to see the blast radius of a change before it ships.
- SPEC
Scenario
A single plain-language description of how a product behaves in a specific situation. The atomic unit of a Specsight spec.
- SPEC
Feature
A logical grouping of scenarios that represents a meaningful unit of the product, like “Document Upload” or “User Authentication.” features form the structure of a Specsight spec.