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4 resources from Growth.Design we point founders to, and the questions each answers.

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Why we picked it Interactive comic style teardowns of real products like Airbnb, Duolingo, and Spotify that show UX and psychology principles in action, not in the abstract. It is the fastest way to train your eye for why a flow works or fails. Great for founders who learn by seeing concrete examples.

Growth.Design Case Studies

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  • See heuristics and psychology applied to products you actually use
  • Small friction points compound into big drop offs
  • Design choices are testable bets, not matters of taste
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Why we picked it A searchable library of the biases and principles behind user behavior, each with a short example. It goes wider than the core laws into things like anchoring and the peak end rule that shape conversion. Keep it open as a checklist when you are refining a signup or pricing flow.

106 Cognitive Biases and Principles That Affect Your UX

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  • Over 100 principles, each with a concrete UI example
  • Filterable, so you can pull the few relevant to a screen
  • Bridges pure UX laws and growth and conversion decisions
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📄 Article
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Why we picked it A comic style teardown of Blinkist onboarding grounded in behavioral psychology, showing why each step helps or hurts. It gives you a simple rule for when to ask for something versus defer it. Quick to read and immediately applicable to your own signup flow.

One Simple Psychology Framework To Improve Your Onboarding (Blinkist)

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  • Ask for effort only after you have shown value
  • Reduce the number of choices at the moment of signup
  • Match each step to the user's current motivation
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📄 Article
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Why we picked it Duolingo lets people finish a full lesson before it ever asks them to create an account, and this study breaks down why that works. It is the clearest real example of the core action before signup idea. Steal the sequence, not just the gamification.

Duolingo's User Retention: 8 Tactics Tested On 300 Million Users

From Growth.Design

  • Let people feel value before you show a signup wall
  • Deferring account creation lifts completion
  • Front load the core action, delay the admin
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