user-story-mapping

Hierarchical user journey visualization that breaks activities into steps and tasks, organized left-to-right as narrative flow. Visualize the user journey by creating a hierarchical map that breaks down high-level activities into steps and tasks, organized left-to-right as a narrative flow. Use this to build shared understanding across product, design, and engineering, prioritize features based on user workflows, and identify gaps or opportunities in the user experience. This is not a backlog—it's a strategic artifact that shows how users accomplish their goals, which then informs what to build. Invented by Jeff Patton, story mapping organizes work into a 2D structure: Horizontal axis (left-to-right): User journey over time Vertical axis (top-to-bottom): Priority and releases Use template.md for the full fill-in structure. Who are you building for? Quality checks: Provide details about the persona within this segment (reference skills/proto-persona/SKILL.md ). Example: What is the user trying to accomplish?