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User flow is the new wireframe

An illustrated guide on the different ‘resolutions’ of user flows, and when to use them.

Alexander Handley
UX Collective
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6 min readOct 23, 2018

What do user flows have to do with wireframes? Wait… there’s different types of user flows? Continue on my dear reader…

Am I going to be being (overly) dramatic — no way! (Yes).
Am I (probably) biased—you bet.
But do you have an informative, opinionated article in front of you which will add a tool to your designer tool-belt—yeah sure why not!

Contents

  • 📚 A quick definition of user flows
  • 🖥 What role do wireframes have?
    — What do wireframes have to do with user flows?
  • 🔍 What are the different ‘resolutions’ for user flows?
  • 🤔 FAQ: Frequently Anticipated Questions
    — a cool gif

And if that doesn’t entice you to read to the end my busy skim-reading friend then here is my Code of Content which I promise to abide by ✋

📚 A quick definition of user flows

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⬇ ⬇ ⬇ Nice try w/ the gif below ;) …but i don’t agree personally.
I think you need another CoC rule.
**Don’t trick or misguide your readers**
Great article overall.👍

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Personally, I don’t find it helpful to include the desired emotional state of our users at each step… I mean are you 😃 🤔 🐶 or 😠 while you “Update Billing Settings”

That’s not what those emoticons are for. It’s an easy way to communicate severity of pain points and success, not how they feeeeeeel about the design.

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What a great article. As a beginner designer, I struggle to differentiate between userflows and wireflows and mistakign (and often mix it up with sitemap at the same time). Great article, I can’t wait to implement this granular approach in my design process

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