The biggest WTF in design right now - UX Collective
Ryan Singer:
If you have so many controls on one screen, chances are they don’t all belong to the same flow. They probably belong to different actions, where a few actions are related but many others are separate.
Sketching a flow isn’t about meticulously documenting everything that’s possible on a given screen. It’s about taking a single goal and asking how does the user get started, what happens when they execute the action, what are the main forks in the road, and what happens when they are finished. If you scope the flow by a specific goal instead of by screens, then there should be fewer complexities.
Think “adding a to-do” instead of “flows for the to-do screen.” The first is tractable, while the second is massive and unfocused.
This shorthand has met a bare minimum for me to get a flow out of my brain in order to move on to other things. I hope it’s useful for you too.
A shorthand for designing UI flows
