ChecklistCraft conventionIntermediate
Onboarding Checklist
Whether a new user reaches real value, and how much you make them do before they get there.
Definition
A review pass for first-run experience, covering the path to first value, what is asked for and when, and how capability is introduced.
Craft convention. True because the industry converged on it. Breaking it costs familiarity, not correctness.
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Path to value
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Each link says what the connection is, so you can tell a principle from an alternative from a thing people mix this up with.
Applies when you are designing
What this checks
The guidance behind the items in this list.
- Goal-Gradient EffectLaw
- Peak-End RuleLaw
- Zeigarnik EffectLaw
- Empty StatesPattern
- OnboardingPattern
- Paradox of the Active UserPsychology
- Spacing EffectPsychology
- Onboarding CopyUX writing