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Why we picked it Samuel Hulick tears down real onboarding flows slide by slide, and the Slack one shows how a product teaches itself inside the app instead of piling on tutorial screens. Reading a concrete teardown trains your eye to spot which steps carry value and which are just friction. Start here, then browse his full teardown list for other flows close to yours.
How Slack Onboards New Users (User Onboarding Teardown)
From UserOnboard by Samuel Hulick 79-slide teardown, ~20 min
- Great onboarding uses the product itself to deliver a first win, not a wall of setup screens
- Every step should either deliver value or clearly move the user toward it, cut the rest
- Studying real flows step by step is faster than abstract onboarding theory