UI Onboarding

Get users to real value quickly. Onboarding is not a tour of every feature.

Establish the activation goal

Determine:

• who is arriving and what they already know;
• their motivation, expected time commitment, and familiar alternatives;
• the job they came to complete;
• the smallest real outcome that proves value;
• the current path and where users hesitate or abandon;
• required setup versus optional enrichment;
• how success can be observed.

Infer what the product and existing evidence make clear. If the value moment or user experience level is genuinely unknown, ask before designing the flow.

Read references/onboarding-patterns.md before choosing a pattern.