Field notes
Field notes
Field notes on app onboarding analytics from Desktop Garden in George Town: skip buttons, permission pauses, café tests, and briefings designers will read.
When the skip button does the tutorial’s job
If almost everyone skips, the tutorial is not a lesson. It is a gate with a hole.
Counting the pause before the first tap
Four seconds of stillness on a permission sheet is not a personality trait. It is a decision with no good words.
Café tests in George Town and the permission sheet
A noisy café is a better first-open room than a quiet office, if that is where the app will actually be opened.
A first-week briefing a designer will actually finish
Keep the timestamps, cut the adjectives, and put the change list on page one.