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"Aha Moments" in User Onboarding: Developer's Guide to Better First Impressions

https://onboardjs.com/blog/creating-aha-moments
5•somafet•7mo ago

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somafet•7mo ago
An "aha moment" in user onboarding isn't just a feature demonstration. It's the moment when three things align:

    The user understands what your product does
    They see how it solves their specific problem
    They experience immediate value or progress
The key word here is "specific." Generic product tours rarely create aha moments because they show features without context. Real aha moments are personal and relevant to the individual user's situation.
andy_ng•7mo ago
is there a formula to decide what aha moment happening in a product?
somafet•7mo ago
There are a few and it all depends on the angle you want to attack the problem from. One generic formula would be the Threshold Analysis method where you pick a key metric for your product (like messages sent for Slack, files uploaded for something like Dropbox) and you try to find the minimum threshold of usage that predicts user retention.

Example: Users who send 0-2 messages: 15% retention Users who send 3-9 messages: 25% retention Users who send 10+ messages: 75% retention ← Aha threshold!

But you need to do a lot of testing/validation for this. You can: - Test different thresholds - Validate across different time periods

A simpler formula would be the Time-to-Value Framework: Aha Moment = Fastest path to meaningful outcome

In here you are searching answers for questions like - How quckly can a user get value? - What's the shortest path to success? - What obstacles slow down value realization?

Hope that helps a bit!

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