Benefits of User Flow
- UX designers draw user flows as low fidelity to get clearer picture of how users will navigate through an app or website.This helps them design the UI more efficiently.
- User flow is a crucial component of web and app design because it help you understand how consumers engage with your content. You can decide what steps a user needs to take to complete a task by knowing user flow, and you can also decide how to best guide them through your app.
- It reveals all paths of app/website which might be untouched when checking the prototype manually.
- A well-designed user flow will make your product more enjoyable and easy to use,you may visualize all tasks before you even start prototype.
- It uses common components like blocks and arrows for visual representation and can be easily understood by client.
- User Flows better visualizes the UI when prototype do not contain all final features.
- User Flows give designers the ability to develop rapid solutions that lay the foundation for early testing while accelarating iterations (in agile development).
- With User Flows, more attention is paid to the experience of the users and goal of the application, not just design and look.
- The evaluation of present interfaces can also be done using user flows. We can improve the performance of product based on users engagement with the interface.
What is the Importance of User Flows in UX ?
The easiest way to understand UX is by asking this question to yourself as a developer “Is the user able to use the product in an efficient manner, the way the developer has intended to use his artifact.” If you are not a professional UX designer, you can understand the User Flow as a Flowchart although these two are different terminologies. User flow begins when the user logs in to the application, performs all actions( search, browse, scroll ), and continues until the user logs out. It includes all logical and computational conditions associated with the user interface.
A user flow is the visual representation of the paths a user can take, in order to achieve a specific goal. In order to determine the sequence of actions that will achieve a desired outcome, user flow diagrams include visual elements such as screens, shapes, and images in combination with connectors.
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