Onboarding #4: Twitter
Product? Twitter
What does it do? Tweet, retweet, you know the drill. Keep it short.
Twitter home page
- Clear page with nice images
Signup form
- The content I entered on the first page is repeated here. This is a good way to let me validate what I entered before
- I like the feedback next to each field and the tone is friendly
- Username has to be unique and it’s validated again after each change in the field
Introduction to onboarding
- Received a personalized e-mail after completing the previous step to confirm my account
- Onboarding layout feels a bit outdated next to the rest of Twitter
- Would be nice to have the images on the right to be real time, there is a picture from December 2013 on there
- Nice to see that onboarding has 6 total steps
Specify my interests
- Funny that the options are specified in Dutch, even though I selected English
Follow suggested users based on interests
- Smart move to autofollow all of those users
- Nice sticky header when I scroll down
- Again, Dutch suggestions
- Good to have a confirmation inside the button: “Follow 36 and continue”
Customize my profile
- Nice usage of browser API’s to let me take a picture with my webcam
- Hover over “Upload photo” button reminds me that drag and drop is an option too
- Ability to skip this step is good
Find people you know
- Good to mention my contacts won’t be bothered
- Option to skip this step is a bit hidden and in a different place than before
- I’m not able to find contacts by entering a name or e-mail address myself
Short animation and feed
- After finishing the previous step, a short animation is presented. This is supposed to be step 6, but it is really short. On one hand it is nice to have 5 actual steps and display it as 6, but I’d change it to 5 because it looks easier and shorter.
- After completing the onboarding process my feed is presented. I still have to confirm my e-mail address, so a notification to do this is presented
- Done!