Briefle words · Product & specs
Failure mode
A specific way a step can go wrong, such as bad input, a third-party outage or a rejection.
Say it to an AI
Spec seller onboarding as a step table with Success and If-it-fails columns. For each step, name the likely failure modes (user error vs. third-party outage vs. rejection) and the specific recovery for each; no generic “show an error and retry”.
How an expert would brief the stronger version of “Seller onboarding spec”.
See it
Try it as a puzzle →A handmade-goods marketplace specs the four steps a new seller goes through to open a shop.
Why: B separates a blurry ID (user can fix) from the ID vendor being down (user can't), which need opposite responses.
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Room 5 · Flows & states
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