
Flow, Not Fields: Mapping Your User’s Mental Journey Before You Design a Single Input
Flow, Not Fields: Mapping Your User’s Mental Journey Before You Design a Single Input Forms don’t fail because you picked the wrong input type. They fail because the flow in your head doesn’t match the journey in your user’s head. If you start your form project by dragging fields onto a canvas, you’re already skipping the most important work: understanding what people are thinking, feeling, and deciding from the moment they see your link to the moment they close the tab (with or without hitting Submit). This post is about designing that invisible layer first—the mental journey—so every field you add has a clear reason to exist. Why Flow Comes Before Fields When a form “just works,” it’s rarely because of a clever wi























































































































































































































































