Like a wildfire after years of drought, The Pattern is spreading through our digital commons, and seeping into the hearts and minds of humanity. The Pattern is stifling our creative potential. It is poisoning our culture. And it is standing in the way of our ability to live well and flourish.
The best way to make your onboarding better is to try it. Try it often. Every few weeks at minimum. Think of yourself as one of your user personas, or a dumb user rather than you, the expert who knows your product very well. Question every step. Act confused.
By staying on the bus, you give yourself time to re-work and revise until you produce something unique, inspiring, and great. It’s only by staying on board that mastery reveals itself. Show up enough times to get the average ideas out of the way and every now and then genius will reveal itself.
Pure discovery learning, the idea that children can teach themselves, is one of many educational myths that have been debunked but still remain curiously popular.