Onboarding Flow Design

Summary

Designing the first-run experience to get a new user to their first real value moment as quickly and clearly as possible — a disproportionately high-leverage flow, since a confusing first impression often means a lost user.

• 1Screen-record yourself going through a cold signup flow for an app you've never used.
• 2Count every step between signup and the user's first meaningful action.
• 3Redesign one step you'd cut or simplify, and explain why.