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Course Overview: What You’ll Learn in AI Onboarding Flow Design: First-Run UX That Converts
VIBE CODING PEOPLE · COURSE OVERVIEW
AI Onboarding Flow Design: First-Run UX That Converts
A hands-on, no-fluff course built for people who want to ship. Every lesson is immediately applicable — no 40-minute intros before you do anything real.
What You Will Learn
- Define an activation event and design every onboarding screen to serve it.
- Pick the right onboarding pattern (tour, checklist, or setup) for your product.
- Write onboarding microcopy with AI that sounds human and moves users.
- Design empty states that feel like opportunity, not absence.
- Instrument and measure onboarding with a funnel + retention view that actually changes decisions.
- Run rigorous A/B tests and build an onboarding roadmap you can sustain over quarters.
Full Course Breakdown
All paid lessons included in this course:
LESSON 2
The First Five Minutes: Why Onboarding Is the Highest-Leverage UX Work You'll Ever Do
Most churn is decided in the first session. We'll map where users drop off, why 'aha moments' matter more than feature tours, and the three onboarding patterns that actually move activation.
LESSON 3
Mapping the First-Run Flow: From Landing Page to Activation
A screen-by-screen teardown of the ideal first-run flow. You'll learn where to ask for what, why email verification kills activation, and how to design the signup -> setup -> first action sequence.
LESSON 4
AI-Assisted Onboarding Copy: Microcopy That Reduces Friction
Onboarding is written more than it is designed. We'll use AI as a co-writer for button labels, empty-state prompts, welcome messages, and error recovery — without sounding robotic.
LESSON 5
Checklists, Tours, and Setup Wizards: Picking the Right Pattern
A decision framework for choosing between the three main onboarding patterns, with real examples from Stripe, Notion, and Superhuman. No one pattern fits every product.
LESSON 6
Empty States and First-Use UX: Designing the Zero Moment
The empty state is the highest-leverage screen in your product — and the most ignored. We'll cover the anatomy of a great empty state, why stock illustrations kill conversion, and how to make zero data feel like opportunity.
LESSON 7
Measuring Onboarding: Funnel Analytics, Activation, and the Retention Curve
You can't improve what you don't measure. We'll set up an activation funnel, define your North Star metric, and read retention curves like a pro — in Mixpanel, Amplitude, or a DIY SQL dashboard.
LESSON 8
Shipping Onboarding Changes: Experiments, Cohorts, and the Long Game
How to ship onboarding changes without breaking activation for existing users, run proper A/B tests, and build a sustainable onboarding roadmap over quarters — not sprints.
Who This Course Is For
- Product designers owning signup, activation, or first-run UX.
- Founders and solo builders whose activation rate is the bottleneck on growth.
- Growth PMs running onboarding experiments and needing a sharper framework.
- UX writers partnering with designers on first-run copy and empty states.
- Teams using AI tools who want a disciplined approach to AI-assisted UX writing.
What Makes This Course Different
- Decision-first, not tool-first — the patterns here are evergreen even as tools change.
- Every lesson ships with a hands-on exercise you can run on your own product this week.
- Examples pulled from real, shipping products (Stripe, Linear, Notion, Figma, Superhuman).
- Copy-heavy lessons on microcopy and empty states — the under-designed parts of UX.
- No-fluff format: roughly 15-20 minutes per lesson, built for practitioners.
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