Read original post by Krzysztof Kozak at Six Revisions Blog
When someone signs up on your website, or downloads your software, or installs your mobile app, it doesn’t immediately mean the person has already decided to use it.
You have a small window of opportunity to quickly introduce your app’s key features and teach a first-time user how the app works. The process of familiarizing a new user to your app is called onboarding.
Onboarding accomplishes these two things in the most efficient way possible:
- Present the key benefits of using the app (the app’s value proposition)
- Teach the app’s main features so new users can use the app immediately