--- title: Your Onboarding Flow Is Solving a Problem Users Don’t... description: Most onboarding flows are built to educate users about a product, but users signing up for the first time don't want a tour — they want to accomplish a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/your-onboarding-flow-is-solving-a-problem-users-don-t-actually-have-n5inwt0pf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Your Onboarding Flow Is Solving a Problem Users Don’t Actually Have | daily.dev og:description: Most onboarding flows are built to educate users about a product, but users signing up for the first time don't want a tour — they want to accomplish a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/your-onboarding-flow-is-solving-a-problem-users-don-t-actually-have-n5inwt0pf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/n5iNwT0PF.png og:image:alt: Your Onboarding Flow Is Solving a Problem Users Don’t Actually Have og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Your Onboarding Flow Is Solving a Problem Users Don’t Actually Have **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 16 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Most onboarding flows are built to educate users about a product, but users signing up for the first time don't want a tour — they want to accomplish a specific task quickly. Onboarding completion rate is a misleading metric because it measures flow completion, not whether users reached meaningful value. The real north star should be identifying the single behavior that predicts long-term retention and designing the shortest possible path to that behavior. Common mistakes include treating confusion as an education gap rather than a sequencing problem, asking for too much information too early, and adding screens that serve internal stakeholder needs rather than user intent. Intent-first onboarding (as practiced by Figma and Duolingo) strips away everything not required to get users to their first meaningful outcome, deferring complexity through progressive disclosure until it's actually relevant. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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