Design Product Tours Carefully
Onboarding & Growth · feature discovery
Updated 2026-07-28
- Tours should teach through action, not slides.
- Avoid:
- Long walkthroughs.
- Feature lists.
- Forced tutorials.
- Prefer:
- Contextual tips.
- Real tasks.
- Progressive learning.
- Let users skip.
- Teach when the user needs the information.
- The best onboarding happens while users are achieving something.
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