Hi 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.
Fabulous work! Love your attention to detail. Kudos for not polluting my history with each slide. Here: have an Internet!
Onboarding teardowns
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#52Netflix is an example of a trend that I hate, where it is hard to find the sign in button. One other offender that comes to mind is Crashplan, I actually had to google "Crashplan login" to find the page. Lastpass does this too where you actually have to cancel toward the end of the installation to proceed because the installer assumes you are a new user. Maybe not directly related but when you go to download Chrome f…
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#53Love this site. It's amazing how many steps users have to go through to start using even simple apps. (It actually made me feel better about my app-- not that the on boarding is perfect, just nice to realize that I'm not alone.) Sam-- any thoughts on how many screens someone should have to go through, or tips for reducing that number? Or, if perhaps sometimes it's better to do something in multiple screens that many…
I tend to think less in terms of screens and more in user momentum -- how quickly and substantially are they making progress in what they set out to do when they signed up?
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#54I 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.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Going through top 4-5 pages, I noticed that slides after 80 randomly stop working (just blue background). Click next a few more times and 9X works again... (evernote did it for example)
Hmm, I'm not sure why that would be. Could you tell me which browser you're using?
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#57Does this site get you quite a few consulting clients, or is it more word of mouth?
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Going through top 4-5 pages, I noticed that slides after 80 randomly stop working (just blue background). Click next a few more times and 9X works again... (evernote did it for example)
Hmm, I'm not sure why that would be. Could you tell me which browser you're using?
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#60Does this site get you quite a few consulting clients, or is it more word of mouth?
I'm not sure I follow -- what's the difference between the two, specifically?
Or do most of your clients come from referrals or recurring work from existing clients?