# Journeys and steps

## Overview

Journeys and steps — collectively known as the "backbone" — are a crucial part of planning in Avion. They represent the core user journeys / pages / paths that your end users take through your product.

![](/files/TcfsbzOunImaiMk3QfPJ)

### Journeys

A journey in Avion refers to the very top level card. In the above image, *Registration* would be a journey. You can add a journey by hovering over the journeys section and hitting **Add Journey**. This will appear to the right of all existing journeys.

![](/files/so8I1EmQBZHGblFqpYRc)

You can add a more detailed journey description by single-clicking on the journey, which will open up a screen like this:

![Journeys can have descriptions, tags, personas and comments](/files/RJwZuKyz9KVYBZyhFavY)

### Steps

A journey contains any number of steps, which run horizontally from left to right under the journey card. Steps can also be single-clicked to open up a screen where additional details can be tracked.

### Reordering

Both journeys and steps can be dragged to reorder them. When a step is dragged, any child stories of that step will also move with it. When a journey is dragged, any child steps and stories will also move with it.

### Best practice

* Keep journey and step names short, snappy and user-focused
* Use personas to annotate your journeys and steps and keep your end user front of mind
* Stay focused on the task at hand by collapsing journeys that aren't relevant to the current conversation:
  * Right-click → Collapse Journey 
  * Or middle-click the journey
  * Or press space bar when the journey is focused via the keyboard
* Follow our guide on defining your product backbone:

{% content-ref url="/pages/R30UfWtC3iAlglijfGfP" %}
[Define your product backbone](/getting-started/define-your-product-backbone.md)
{% endcontent-ref %}


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