App development · lesson 14 of 24 · free

User flows — App development for students

A user flow is the path a user takes through the screens to finish one task — signing up, ordering food, taking a quiz or posting a photo. Planning the flow before building shows missing steps, extra steps and dead ends: screens with no way forward or back. In a good flow every screen leads to a clear next step. Practise by putting the steps of common flows in order and saying which screen comes next.

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Which screen next? — “list the steps of a task in order; each screen leads to a clear next step”

  1. A user flow = the screens of one task, in order.
  2. Each screen should lead to a clear next step; no dead ends.
  3. Sign-up: open → Sign up → name and email → password → code → home.

Use it for: Planning the screens of your app and finding confusing steps in apps you use.

Worked example: 🔢 In a sign-up flow, what comes right after “open the app”? → tap “Sign up”

  1. The flow is: open the app, tap “Sign up”, type name and email, make a password, enter the code sent, see the home screen.
  2. “open the app” is step 1, so step 2 comes next.

Check: The code is entered after the password, just before the home screen ✓

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