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Define Your Aha Moment

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Before you cut steps, you need to know what the onboarding is racing the user toward. This Reforge guide makes you name your aha moment in plain words and then pin it to a measurable action within a time window, so every step you keep or drop is judged against whether it gets people to value faster. It is the difference between guessing and having a target.

• Define the aha moment both qualitatively (what the user feels) and quantitatively (the core action within a set time window)
• Setup, aha, and habit are separate moments, most onboarding only designs for setup and stops too early
• Measure activation as users who hit aha divided by users who completed setup, so you have a baseline to move