WTF Is More Important than You Imagine in UX…

When it comes to designing digital products, UX design is unquestionably one of the essential process for developing better products.

Of the many stages of the UX design process, defining the end-users’ goals, actions, and expectations via user flowchart is a crucial step in determining the functions and features of the product from the perspective of a user (remember User-Centered Design?).

Just imagine a potential customer trying to purchase a product from an online store and is required to register for a user account even though the user beliefs it will be a one-time purchase. The additional and unnecessary steps it will require the user to set up the account before he/she can proceed to purchase the item may very well drive the customer away.

For that reason, defining What’s the Flow (abbreviated as WTF in the title) from a user’s perspective, figuring out a step by-step user flow before any actual UI design is created will ensure that the product being developed will offer the right functions for the right users at the right time.

User flows are:

• a series of steps a user takes to achieve a meaningful goal
• used to communicate the intended flow of a user through various pages and actions in an app or website