6. 5 Min Design Exercise
1. Team up in groups of 2-3
2. Sketch an onboarding story to buy
a high speed toy train
3. Present your ideas and include
value principles
10. walks the user through the features of an app
or highlights the key features.
It’s great because it clears up a lot of confusion
up-front. Often the go-to approach.
Joyriding
11. Homesnap
Homesnap shines with a minimalist and traditional onboarding
approach, yet misses the opportunity to make it part of the
interaction. It dilutes the experience rather than enhancing it.
12. asks the user to make the first move resulting
in immediate engagement. Common for apps
that curate personalized content.
Do Something
13. Trunk Club
Trunk Club asks users to select the fashion they wear with a
dash of “aspiration” style. Clothing sets, picked by a
professional stylist are boxed and shipped to your door.
14. has users “setup” their account rather than
teaching how to use the product. This approach
assumes that onboarding is trickier than the
app’s usability.
Setup
15. Digit, is an automated
savings app and all its
complexity is in the
welcoming approach.
Everything else is
mindless savings.
Digit
17. Be more intelligent than your users
Build in logic to ease points of friction
18. Acorns, a micro investment app
reinvents password verification.
Checkmarks indicate when
password rules are met.
Acorns
19. Demonstrate the value, don’t explain it
Avoid long up-front tutorials and screen-by-screen walk-throughs
20. Clear, a to-do list app pushes
users through a 7-screen tutorial
before they can start using it.
It’s a lot to absorb when you
haven’t interacted with the
functional part of the app yet.
Clear
21. Polar, Luke W’s polling app has
you diving into the content.
Onboarding is masked through
your interactions with it.
Polar
22. Make onboarding contextual & progressive
Deliver onboarding elements at the point of value for interactive moments
23. Join.me, offers a four step tutorial before beginning your
presentation. It’s a quick and easy overview of the app for new
users. For regular users, it’s an annoyance.
Join.me
25. Redbox
Clear calls to action maximize empty space, but the value
proposition is barely noticeable. Why not populate the page
with a few movies, you’re logged in!
26. Start with the end
Define what success means to your customer and create the strategic steps to
get them their
27. iPhone 6s
Apple’s fingerprint setup combines
visual feedback and physical
interaction. Three parts of your
finger is scanned and displayed
when each part is completed.
28. If its tricky, spell it out
Take a ways
Context is king
Make it fun
Wow people