https://www.tseeley.com/tags/ux/atom.xml2025-08-05T00:00:00+00:00tseeley.comPosts about software and making things.https://www.tseeley.com/posts/onboarding/2025-08-05T00:00:00+00:00Thomas Seeley2025-08-05T00:00:00+00:00 <ol> <li> Optimize for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_to_value">time-to-value</a>, not signup completion </li> <li> Never show a completely empty workspace </li> <li> Single, opinionated first action </li> <li> Personalize only when the answer changes the experience </li> <li> Teach by doing, not by tooltips </li> <li> Earn complexity over time </li> <li> Define and obsess over one activation milestone </li> <li> White-glove first to learn, then productize </li> </ol> <hr> <p><code>ux</code></p> <p><a href="https://www.tseeley.com/about/">Thomas Seeley</a></p> <p><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/tseeley.com">@tseeley.com on Bluesky</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/@iamseeley">@iamseeley on Mastodon</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.tseeley.com/posts/inferring-state-types/">Inferring types from usage</a> &rarr;</p>