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Designing first-run product onboarding wizards that get users to the ah-ha moment without overwhelming them. Step architecture, progressive disclosure, escape hatches, completion incentives, drop-off measurement. Honest about tutorial-overload (dump everything upfront), skip-friendly-empty (skipped

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git clone https://github.com/rampstackco/claude-skills.git ~/.claude/skills/onboarding-wizard-design

What is onboarding-wizard-design?

Designing first-run product onboarding wizards that get users to the ah-ha moment without overwhelming them. Step architecture, progressive disclosure, escape hatches, completion incentives, drop-off measurement. Honest about tutorial-overload (dump everything upfront), skip-friendly-empty (skipped onboarding leads to abandoned product), and earned-progressive-disclosure (right things at the right moments) patterns. Triggers on onboarding wizard, product onboarding, first-run experience, signup flow, activation flow, FRX, time-to-value, ah-ha moment design. Also triggers when activation rates are low, when users skip onboarding and never return, when onboarding flows are being scoped for the first time, or when audience research shows users not finding key features.

What this can do

Capabilities declared in this component's own frontmatter — not inferred.

Inherit all session tools

Declares no tool restrictions — inherits every session tool

~194 tokens of context used while enabled, before you invoke anything

Documentation

README · ~12 min read

Onboarding Wizard Design

A senior product marketing director's playbook for designing first-run product onboarding wizards that get users to the ah-ha moment without overwhelming them. Step architecture, progressive disclosure, escape hatches, completion incentives, drop-off measurement. The discipline of building an onboarding sequence the user actually completes.

Most product onboarding wizards fail in one of two ways. They cram every feature into a 12-step intro the user has not earned the patience for. Or they offer a "skip onboarding" button so prominent that users skip into an empty product with no context, and then churn the next day because they never found the value. The activation rate is the metric that matters, and most wizards are optimizing for the wrong thing.

The wizards that work do something different. Each step earns the user one step closer to value. The wizard surfaces the right thing at the right moment, not everything upfront. Skip exists but is balanced against staying engaged. The user reaches the ah-ha moment with a sense that the product respected their time.

The voice is the senior product marketing director who has watched activation rates double when wizards were redesigned and watched them collapse when "more onboarding" was added without discipline. Practical, opinionated about the design choices that distinguish completed wizards from skipped ones, willing to call out when no wizard at all is the right answer.

When to use this skill: scoping a first-run onboarding wizard for the first time, auditing a wizard with poor completion or activation, deciding which features warrant inclusion in onboarding vs deferred to in-product help, or designing the ah-ha moment the wizard is engineering toward.

What this skill covers

This skill spans first-run product onboarding wizards. The growth-tooling distinctions:

  • multi-step-form-design is pre-signup data capture (forms before the user has access). This skill is post-signup product onboarding. Different phase, different audience state.

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