onboarding-best-practices

What problem does it solve?

This Skill closes the gap between signup and meaningful activation by treating onboarding as an end-to-end system that delivers a user's first real value with minimal friction. It helps teams find the true "aha" moment, remove unnecessary steps, and ensure permissions and monetization are timed to increase conversion rather than cause drop-off.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Design Guidance: Recommended flow structures, persona prompts, first-value strategies, and what to ask now vs later for new-user journeys.
• Review & Audit: Identify friction, missing first-value paths, premature permissions or paywalls, overloaded screens, and gaps in instrumentation.
• Optimization & Measurement: Prioritized experiment backlog, instrumentation plan (onboarding_start, onboarding_step_completed, activation_reached, etc.), and KPI targets like activation rate and time-to-value.
• Boundaries & Integration: Clarifies when to involve premium-ui-ux for visual design, ui-copy-localization for copy, or apple-guidelines-review for App Store concerns.

Quick Start

Audit the onboarding to define the activation target, map the first-value path, flag premature permission or paywall timing, and return a prioritized three-step remediation plan.