These flows are designed to feel native to modern developer products such as GitHub, Linear, and Notion.
- Reduce friction to the next best action
- Keep core actions reachable in 1–3 clicks
- Use progressive disclosure for advanced features
- Make state changes visible and immediate
- Support both logged-out and logged-in experiences without forcing sign-up
- Show trust signals early for repositories and contribution paths
- Users land on a discovery surface first
- They can browse without signing in
- Saving, personalizing, and contributing unlock progressively
- Authentication is contextual and lightweight
Allow a first-time visitor to explore valuable repositories quickly and convert to a signed-in user after demonstrating intent.
[Landing Page]
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[Explore / Discover]
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[Repository Listing / Detail]
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[Login Prompt]
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[GitHub Auth]
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[Save Repository]
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[Saved Collections / Dashboard]
- Open the landing page
- Browse featured repositories or recommendations
- Open a repository page
- View AI summary and contribution context
- Tap "Save" or "Login to Save"
- Complete GitHub authentication
- Return to repository and confirm saved state
- Show hero content, featured projects, and curated collections
- Display repository cards with AI summary snippets
- Offer contextual sign-in when the user attempts a personalized action
- Persist saved repositories after auth completion
- Update saved state across the session and dashboard
- Does the user browse anonymously or immediately attempt a save action?
- Is the user a first-time visitor or returning user?
- Does the repository have enough metadata to provide a quality summary?
- User exits auth flow mid-process
- User clicks save before login
- Repository is unavailable or missing summary data
- Browser session is restored after partial auth
- Visitor can browse and understand a repository without friction
- Visitor is invited to sign in at the right moment
- Save action completes and becomes visible in the dashboard
- Save action fails due to authentication issues
- Repository details do not load
- User is shown a gentle fallback with retry options
Let users authenticate quickly and securely using GitHub.
[User Clicks Login]
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[Auth Choice: GitHub]
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[OAuth Redirect]
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[GitHub Permission Consent]
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[StackLoop Session Created]
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[Return to Previous Page]
- Tap Login
- Choose GitHub as auth provider
- Approve requested scopes
- Return to the app
- Show loading state during OAuth
- Provide clear permission explanation
- Create user profile and initial preferences on first login
- Redirect to the previous page or onboarding flow
- Has the user logged in before?
- Does the user accept GitHub permissions?
- Is the GitHub account already linked to an existing StackLoop account?
- OAuth error or denied permissions
- Account already exists with a different provider
- GitHub rate limit or timeout
- User is authenticated and sees a personalized experience
- User sees a clear error screen with retry and fallback options
[User Opens Settings/Profile]
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[Click Logout]
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[Confirm Logout]
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[Session Cleared]
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[Return to Public Experience]
- Open settings or profile
- Choose Logout
- Confirm action
- Clear session and local state
- Remove personalized content temporarily
- Keep public browsing available
- Session already expired
- Token revocation fails
- Multi-tab sessions remain active
- User is signed out and redirected to a neutral state
- User receives a warning with retry instructions
Handle expired sessions gracefully without breaking the experience.
[Protected Action Triggered]
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[Session Check]
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[Session Expired]
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[Prompt Re-authentication]
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[User Re-authenticates]
- Trigger a protected action
- Re-authenticate if prompted
- Preserve the current page context
- Show a lightweight modal or inline prompt
- Restore the user to the same action after login
- Token refresh fails
- User declines re-authentication
- Expiry occurs during a long-running workflow
- User resumes the same task without significant loss
- User is returned to a safe, signed-out state with a retry option
Allow a user to reconnect GitHub access if previously revoked or expired.
[Settings / Integrations]
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[Reconnect GitHub]
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[OAuth Flow]
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[Permissions Restored]
- Open settings
- Select reconnect GitHub
- Re-authorize
- Show permission reason clearly
- Re-establish linked account access
- Re-enable repository and contribution features
- Previously granted scopes were revoked
- Permissions changed since initial hookup
- GitHub integration becomes active again
- User sees a clear explanation of the missing permission
Learn what kinds of repositories the user cares about.
[First Login]
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[Onboarding Modal / Step 1]
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[Select Interests]
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[Continue]
- Choose from categories such as AI, Backend, DevTools, Data, Mobile
- Select preferred experience level
- Continue
- Show recommended interests based on common developer personas
- Persist selections immediately
- Use them to personalize repository ranking
- Whether the user wants beginner-friendly content or advanced projects
- Whether they want to focus on one domain or multiple domains
- User skips onboarding entirely
- User selects too many interests
- User changes their selection later
- Personalized recommendations become more relevant immediately
- Default recommendations are shown until the user completes onboarding
Capture stack preferences so recommendations are more precise.
[Interest Selection]
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[Select Technologies]
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[Save Preferences]
- Choose languages, frameworks, and tools
- Mark essential versus exploratory interests
- Save preferences
- Show badges or chips for selected technologies
- Update feed ranking and learning suggestions
- User has no strong preferences yet
- Preferences conflict with current selection
- Feed becomes more targeted and contextual
- Fallback to broad recommendations is used
Create a tailored discovery experience after initial preferences are known.
[Preferences Saved]
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[Personalized Feed Generated]
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[User Reviews Recommendations]
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[Optional Feedback / Refinement]
- Review personalized feed
- Save repositories
- Mark items as relevant or irrelevant
- Adjust ranking dynamically based on engagement
- Introduce “Why recommended” explanations
- Promote learning and contribution items where appropriate
- No recommendation data yet
- User does not engage with initial suggestions
- Feed becomes progressively more useful with each interaction
- Generic feed remains visible with a clear “personalizing your experience” state
Help users quickly discover useful repositories through a high-signal feed.
[Home Feed]
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[Browse Repository Cards]
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[Open Repository]
- View recommended repositories
- Scroll through curated sections
- Open a repository
- Show AI summary, stars, recency, and fit score
- Surface “Why this is recommended” information
- Support quick save/share actions
- Is the repository relevant enough to open?
- Is the user looking for a trending item, a learning target, or a contribution opportunity?
- Feed is empty due to insufficient preferences
- Repository cards are loading slowly
- User finds at least one relevant project quickly
- Empty state explains how to improve recommendations
Support browsing by topic and ecosystem.
[Categories Page]
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[Select Category]
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[Browse Repositories]
- Pick a category
- Review repositories within it
- Open a repository
- Display category-level context, popularity, and featured projects
- Show recommended subcategories if relevant
- Category has too few items
- Category name is ambiguous
- User finds repositories that match a high-level interest area
- Empty category state with suggestion-based fallback
Let users reach a specific repo, technology, or maintainer quickly.
[Search Input]
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[Query Entered]
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[Results Loaded]
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[Open Result]
- Enter a search query
- View result groups
- Apply filters
- Open a specific result
- Show instant suggestions and grouped results
- Highlight result type by category
- Persist filters when navigating deeper
- No results found
- Query is too broad
- Search is slow or unavailable
- User reaches the intended repository or entity quickly
- Empty state with helpful suggestions and alternative terms
Strengthen discovery through personalized and explanation-driven suggestions.
[Recommendations Surface]
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[Review Why This Is Suggested]
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[Open Repository]
- Review recommendations
- Tap for explanation or explore related projects
- Display reason labels such as matching tech stack or beginner-friendly fit
- Offer save and contribute actions
- Insufficient data for strong recommendations
- Recommendation quality declines over time
- User finds a relevant project with clear reasoning
- No-recommendations state encourages preference updates
Surface momentum and fast-moving projects.
[Trending Page]
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[Browse Trending Repositories]
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[Open Repository]
- Open trending content
- Compare projects
- Save or explore further
- Highlight growth indicators, recency, and activity signals
- Show AI summary even on quickly changing results
- Trending results are too noisy
- Hidden or low-context repositories
- User can quickly identify relevant momentum
- Fallback to curated lists or slower-loading results
Support discovery of active and evolving repositories.
[Recently Updated List]
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[Open Repository]
- Browse recently updated repositories
- Open one that matches their current goal
- Show last updated time and meaningful activity highlights
- Offer relevant filters such as language or topic
- Activity is stale or noisy
- Results overlap heavily with trending
- User finds an active and relevant project quickly
- Empty state or fallback to trending
Help users understand a repository, evaluate whether it fits their goals, and take the next action.
[Repository Page]
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[AI Summary]
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[Technologies / Metadata]
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[Contribution Section]
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[Primary Action: Star / Fork / Share / Save]
- Open repository page
- Read AI summary
- Review technologies and fit
- Explore contribution opportunities
- Take a core action
- Present a concise executive summary first
- Highlight key technical context and repo fit
- Use progressive disclosure for deeper details
- Update action buttons with immediate state changes
- Is the user here for learning, contribution, or bookmarking?
- Does the user need a deeper explanation or a direct action?
- Summary data is missing
- Repository is archived or inactive
- User has no GitHub connection but tries to contribute
- User clearly understands the repository and can act on it
- Fallback content and action alternatives are shown
Guide a developer from interest to contribution in a low-friction path.
[Repository Page]
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[Good First Issue / Contribution Section]
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[Issue Details]
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[GitHub Redirect / Auth]
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[Create Pull Request]
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[Contribution Completed]
- Open repository
- Browse contribution opportunities
- Choose a starter issue
- Open the issue or contribution flow
- Make a contribution
- Submit a pull request
- Show issue fit by difficulty and skill match
- Explain why the issue is suitable for the user
- Provide a direct path to GitHub with context preserved
- Confirm contribution completion and update history
- Does the user have the required technical context?
- Is the issue beginner-friendly?
- Is the repository currently accepting contributions?
- Issue is closed or stale
- User lacks GitHub permissions
- Repo requires special setup steps
- User completes a contribution and sees it reflected in the profile
- User receives guidance, alternative issues, or a “come back later” state
Give maintainers a simple path to claim and manage their repositories.
[Login]
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[Claim Repository]
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[Verification]
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[Repository Management Dashboard]
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[Analytics / Insights]
- Sign in with GitHub
- Search for the repository to claim
- Verify ownership
- Manage metadata and visibility
- Review analytics
- Guide the user to claim the correct repository
- Show verification status clearly
- Allow editing of summary, tags, and contribution signals
- Surface analytics after verification is complete
- Is the user the legitimate maintainer?
- Does the repo already have an existing managed profile?
- Does the maintainer need advanced analytics or basic management?
- Ownership cannot be verified
- Repo already claimed by another account
- Verification token is missing or invalid
- The repository becomes managed and editable by the maintainer
- Verification fails and the user is guided to resolve ownership issues
Help users revisit prior activity and manage their preferences.
[Profile Page]
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[Saved Repositories]
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[History / Activity]
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[Recommendations]
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[Settings]
- Open profile
- Review saved repositories
- Inspect interaction history
- Adjust recommendations
- Update settings
- Show a clean personal workspace
- Group content by relevance and recency
- Keep settings simple and grouped by intent
- Is the user looking for a saved repo or a new recommendation?
- Do they want to tweak personalization or manage integrations?
- Profile has no saved content yet
- History is sparse or empty
- User changes preferences frequently
- Profile becomes a useful personal hub for continued discovery
- Empty states guide the user toward first actions
Support fast, high-confidence navigation to the right content.
[Search Input]
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[Filter Selection]
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[Results List]
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[Open Repository / Technology / Person]
- Enter a term
- Choose filters
- Browse results
- Open a result
- Show result type labels and relevance signals
- Persist filters while the user navigates
- Display additional suggestions if no match is found
- Is the user looking for a repository or a person/technology?
- Do filters need to be applied immediately?
- Query returns too many results
- Filter combination yields zero results
- Search index is unavailable
- User finds the target content with minimal effort
- Empty state and suggested alternatives are shown
Guide the user back to a useful destination when content is missing.
[Broken or Missing URL]
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[404 Screen]
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[Suggested Recovery Options]
- See the error page
- Navigate to home, search, or recommendations
- Show a clear explanation
- Offer recovery shortcuts
- Keep the layout consistent with the main product
- User can recover quickly
- User becomes stuck without guidance
Prevent dead-end search behavior.
[No Search Results]
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[Empty State]
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[Suggested Alternatives]
- Review suggestions
- Adjust query or filters
- Suggest broader terms and popular searches
- Offer category or technology alternatives
- User can refine their query easily
- The user leaves without discovering anything
Avoid making the experience feel empty or broken.
[Insufficient Data]
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[No Recommendations State]
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[Prompt to Personalize / Explore]
- Review the empty state
- Choose to personalize or browse trending content
- Explain why recommendations are unavailable
- Offer alternatives such as trending or categories
- User still has a productive path forward
- User feels blocked without context
Communicate failure clearly without losing trust.
[API Error]
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[Error Banner / Inline Alert]
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[Retry or Fallback]
- Retry if appropriate
- Continue with cached or fallback content
- Show non-blocking error messaging
- Preserve as much content as possible
- Retry automatically where appropriate
- User can continue interacting despite the failure
- User loses trust or cannot proceed
Support offline or weak-network conditions gracefully.
[Network Drop]
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[Offline / Retry State]
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[Cached Content / Retry]
- Retry the action
- Continue with cached content if available
- Show offline state with retry support
- Preserve user input where possible
- User is informed and can recover quickly
- User loses progress without warning
- All primary actions should include visible feedback
- Auth-required actions should be deferred until needed
- Empty states should always provide the next action
- Search and recommendation experiences should support rapid retry
- Idle
- Loading
- Success
- Empty
- Error
- Auth required
- Re-auth required
- Auth modal
- Inline confirmation toast
- Empty-state card
- Filter drawer or sheet
- Repository action bar
- Personalized recommendation card
- Contribution CTA module
The StackLoop UX flows are structured to support the product’s primary motion:
- Discover
- Understand
- Act
- Personalize
- Return
This creates a product experience that is intuitive, developer-friendly, and ready for implementation across web, mobile, and future platform surfaces.