This is easily one of my favorite sites. Every startup should check out (and learn from) these onboarding teardowns — they're awesome.
High five, Hannah!
Onboarding teardowns
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#22Hi all! I'm the person behind this site -- if any of you have any questions or withering critiques, send 'em here! I will be watching it all day.
I would love to know if and how any of the sites reviewed reacted?
None of these sites are in a vacuum. Would love to see a few of them get reviewed again in the future to see if they got better or worse. Slack, Basecamp, Gmail as examples of example of small, medium and large sites.
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#23Great site. Love that it's more than simple, glancing criticism and actually offers suggestions for improvements. Well done.
Couldn't agree more. Forwarded it along to my team at work; I'm sure the designers will enjoy some of the most "painful" on-boarding experiences.
Thank you for spreading the word!
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#24Hi all! I'm the person behind this site -- if any of you have any questions or withering critiques, send 'em here! I will be watching it all day.
I would love to know if and how any of the sites reviewed reacted? None of these sites are in a vacuum. Would love to see a few of them get reviewed again in the future to see if they got better or worse. Slack, Basecamp, Gmail as examples of example of small, medium and large sites.
Very, very few of the product teams have reached out, interestingly enough. The ones that have have usually been along the lines of "yeah... we're working on that..."
As for re-reviewing them, thats definitely something I'd like to get to at some point. For now, though, I'm just a single person and can only review so many as it is!
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#25Love it, your site could work better on mobile though, especially making sure those navigation buttons are big enough to hit.
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#26Love it, your site could work better on mobile though, especially making sure those navigation buttons are big enough to hit.
Yeah, totally true. It's high on the list for the design overhaul!
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#27Hi all! I'm the person behind this site -- if any of you have any questions or withering critiques, send 'em here! I will be watching it all day.
I love the site, but fyi the teardowns are hard to work with on mobile (android chrome nexus5). It jumps around when I hit next, the icons are very small and require a zoom each time, touch gestures on the images do seemingly random things (sometimes zooms, sometimes scrolls, sometimes just jumps around, not sure why). I end up zooming in to touch a button, then when I tap it, it moves so the image takes up the screen and I can't scroll away from it to see the whole image or press the next button.
It's sad because the best times for me to look at it is on my phone and it's incredibly good content. It still seems okay on larger screens.
Please understand, I'm not dissing your site. I only give (hopefully useful) feedback because it's awesome.
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#28I notice how most of those "onboardings" don't even suggest you read the EULA. That's scary. There are a lot of EULAs out there to which you really don't want to agree.
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#29I notice how most of those "onboardings" don't even suggest you read the EULA. That's scary. There are a lot of EULAs out there to which you really don't want to agree.
Yeah I am definitely not going to pore over thousands of words in an intentionally-obtuse legal document just to check out Periscope or whatever.
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#30I had no idea what "onboarding" was until I clicked the link. I feel incredibly enlightened now. GUIs are so important, but it seems like properly designing a clean and straight-forward GUI is almost a cult movement rather than a mainstream movement.