# User Flows

> Map and design user flows that define the path people take through tasks, including branches, decisions, and edge cases. Use when planning multi-step experiences, aligning teams on logic, or identifying complexity before UI design.

- Skill: `itsual/user-flows` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add itsual/user-flows`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/itsual/user-flows/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: itsual (https://skillmd.com/u/itsual)
- Updated: 2026-09-21
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/itsual/user-flows

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# User Flows

## Overview

User flows describe how someone moves through a product to accomplish a goal. They expose decision points, alternative paths, and dead ends before pixels are drawn.

## When to Use

- Planning new multi-step features
- Simplifying convoluted existing experiences
- Aligning product, design, and engineering on logic
- Identifying where errors and edge cases occur

## Core Elements

- Entry points and success end states
- Steps and decision points
- Branches (success, failure, alternative)
- System decisions vs user decisions
- Loops and exits

## Principles

- Start from the user’s goal, not the UI hierarchy
- Optimize the primary path; don’t ignore recovery paths
- Reduce unnecessary steps and decision fatigue
- Make flows the shared source of truth before high-fidelity design
- Update flows when product logic changes

## Verification

- [ ] Primary path is clear and as short as practical
- [ ] Major edge cases and errors are represented
- [ ] Stakeholders agree on the logic before build