Don’t Waste Time on User Onboarding

But it’s also important to make sure that you don’t focus on things that make life harder later, and user onboarding can definitely be one of those things if you’re not ready. If you haven’t hit product/market fit, haven’t settled on your final UX, or aren’t yet certain how your trial users are interacting with your service, adding an onboarding tour won’t necessarily improve things. The smartest people miss the most obvious things, so your PHD friend will miss the flashing button in front of her, and you will miss the fact that while you’ve clicked that button a thousand times already, it’s next to four other flashing buttons that make things very difficult for regular users.

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