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Love this site. It's amazing how many steps users have to go through to start using even simple apps. (It actually made me feel better about my app-- not that the on boarding is perfect, just nice to realize that I'm not alone.)

Sam-- any thoughts on how many screens someone should have to go through, or tips for reducing that number?

Or, if perhaps sometimes it's better to do something in multiple screens that many of us developer types would group onto one screen (Slack comes to mind here)?

Thanks for your contributions to making software easier to use.



Agh, I hate to give you a glib answer here, but I'd have to say "as many screens as it takes to reliably progress people forward."

I tend to think less in terms of screens and more in user momentum -- how quickly and substantially are they making progress in what they set out to do when they signed up?




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