07.2.2 · Skill in Onboarding design
Progressive onboarding
Teaching features gradually as users reach them.
Progressive onboarding introduces features when they become relevant instead of all at once. It avoids long tours that people skip. It needs usage data to know when someone is ready for the next thing.
Resources
2- articleStart hereOnboarding tutorials vs. contextual help ↗NN/g · 2023 · 9 min
Research showing upfront tutorials rarely help, and why help at the moment of need works better.
- articleStart hereInstructional overlays and coach marks ↗NN/g · 2014 · 8 min
How to show a tip at the right moment without covering the screen people are trying to use.
Tools
none yetTools for this topic are being researched.