{"id":3,"date":"2026-01-20T20:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T20:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/ujg\/2026\/01\/20\/call-for-participation-in-user-journey-graph-ujg-community-group\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T09:57:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:57:21","slug":"call-for-participation-in-user-journey-graph-ujg-community-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/ujg\/2026\/01\/20\/call-for-participation-in-user-journey-graph-ujg-community-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Participation in User Journey Graph (UJG) Community Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/ujg\/\">User Journey Graph (UJG) Community Group<\/a> has been launched:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Problem:<\/strong> User journeys are often documented as diagrams and narratives, but they rarely get implemented as designed. Design and Product lack a precise artifact they can follow 1:1, and Engineering lacks a clear way to validate whether the implementation matches the intended journey.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Mission:<\/strong> The User Journey Graph (UJG) Community Group will define an interoperable, machine-readable representation of user journeys so that design, PM, and engineering can share the same explicit \u201csource of truth\u201d and verify alignment over time.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Scope:<\/strong> Define the core UJG model and modular specifications (e.g., serialization), plus guidance and examples for exchanging, reviewing, versioning, and validating journeys across tools.<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n  <li><strong>Editor\u2019s drafts:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/ujg.specs.openuji.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/ujg.specs.openuji.org\/<\/a><\/li>\n  <li><strong>Repository:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/openuji\/spec-ujg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/github.com\/openuji\/spec-ujg<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>Who should participate:<\/strong> People building journey\/UX tooling, product analytics, workflow\/process mining, graph data, and interoperability formats.<\/p>\n\n<p>This group may publish Specifications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to <a href=\"\/community\/ujg\/join\">join the group<\/a>, you will need\n    a <a href=\"\/account\/request\/\">W3C account<\/a>. Please note, however, that <a href=\"\/community\/about\/faq\/#is-w3c-membership-required-to-participate-in-a-community-or-business-group\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">W3C\n        Membership<\/a> is not required to join a Community Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a community initiative. This group was originally proposed on 2026-01-20 by\n    Seva Dolgopolov. The following people supported its creation: Seva Dolgopolov, Jessica Skalmowski, Yannis Evangelou, Mussie Haile and Javanshir Alammadli.\n    W3C&#8217;s hosting of this group does not imply endorsement of the activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group must now <a href=\"\/community\/about\/faq\/#how-do-we-choose-a-chair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">choose a chair<\/a>. Read more about <a href=\"\/community\/about\/faq\/#how-do-we-get-started-in-a-new-group\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">how to get started in a new group<\/a> and\n    <a href=\"\/community\/about\/good-practice-for-running-a-group\/\">good practice for running a group<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We invite you to share news of this new group on social media and other channels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you believe that there is an issue with this group that requires the attention of the W3C staff, please email us\n    at <a href=\"mailto:site-comments@w3.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">site-comments@w3.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you,<br \/>\nW3C Community Development Team<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The User Journey Graph (UJG) Community Group has been launched: Problem: User journeys are often documented as diagrams and narratives, but they rarely get implemented as designed. Design and Product lack a precise artifact they can follow 1:1, and Engineering &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/ujg\/2026\/01\/20\/call-for-participation-in-user-journey-graph-ujg-community-group\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24181,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/ujg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/ujg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/ujg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/ujg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/ujg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/ujg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/ujg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/ujg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/ujg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/ujg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}