Onboarding

Loom was 2 weeks from running out of money. Now it's worth $1.5 billion and has 14 million users. 5 ways Loom wows new users that you can steal:

We used the "Ikea effect" to increase conversion by 82%. Here's why and how. The Ikea effect is a "cognitive bias in which consumers place a disproportionately high value on products they partially created". We wanted to do 2 things in our... See more

Your objective should always be to eliminate instructions entirely by making everything self-explanatory, or as close to it as possible. When instructions are absolutely necessary, cut them back to a bare minimum.

In the first 15 seconds, your visitors are lazy in the sense that they have no extra time to invest in something they don’t know. They are vain in that they want to look good quickly using your product. And they’re selfish in that, despite the big picture potential and purpose of what your service stands for, they want to know what will immediately... See more