{"id":9587,"date":"2026-01-20T13:49:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T13:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/blog\/2026\/01\/20\/proposed-group-user-journey-graph-ujg-community-group\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T13:49:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T13:49:24","slug":"proposed-group-user-journey-graph-ujg-community-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/blog\/2026\/01\/20\/proposed-group-user-journey-graph-ujg-community-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed Group: User Journey Graph (UJG) Community Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The User Journey Graph (UJG) Community Group has been proposed by Seva Dolgopolov:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\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<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n<p>\n    You are invited to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/groups\/proposed\/#ujg\">support the creation of this group<\/a>.\n    Once the group has a total of 5 supporters, it will be launched and people can join to begin work. In order to support the group, you will need a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/account\/request\/\">W3C account<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once launched, the group will no longer be listed as &#8220;proposed&#8221;; it will be in the list of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/groups\/\">current groups<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n    If you believe that there is an issue with this group that requires the attention of the W3C staff, please send us email on <a href=\"mailto:site-comments@w3.org\" target=\"_blank\">site-comments@w3.org<\/a>\n<\/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 proposed by Seva Dolgopolov: 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/blog\/2026\/01\/20\/proposed-group-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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}