How To Onboard

  1. Optimize for time-to-value, not signup completion
  2. Never show a completely empty workspace
  3. Single, opinionated first action
  4. Personalize only when the answer changes the experience
  5. Teach by doing, not by tooltips
  6. Earn complexity over time
  7. Define and obsess over one activation milestone
  8. White-glove first to learn, then productize
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