Onboarding, often referred to as a ‘warm welcome,’ is the first experience new users have with your product. Focus your onboarding on retaining new users — Google Material Design Guidelines
My initial prototype using an animated layout like Moovit.
While planning for a new side project, I reviewed several well-known Android apps in the Google Play app store. These included Doodle, Todoist, Instacart, Mobills, Moovit, Slideshare and Runkeeper. Each handle onboarding, sign-up and sign-in in a similar way: they show me a splash screen and a sliding carousel of product highlights, then make me decide whether to log in with existing social identity credentials or use an email address. The latter—my personal favorite—requires choosing between signing up, signing in or resetting my password.
And then there’s Slack.
Slack reaches more than 5 million daily users and has a valuation over $5 billion (Forbes, Fortune). And, from personal experience, Slack is a must-have when attending Strange Loop! Soooo…