OrchardNest

Approx. reading time: just a couple minutes, despite insane slide count (it's a lot of tiny changes from one to the other)

( check out Part 1 if you haven't already! )

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( check out Part 1 if you haven't already! )

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Quartz just has the best onboarding and you should totally check it out.

Upon its release, Kim Kardashian's new app, Kimoji, sold so many units that it nearly broke the App Store. At one point, it was selling over $1mm per MINUTE. What followed for all the people who bought it? Peep it here!

Peach is the darling of the app world right now, and their onboarding has been heralded as one of the best ever from a newcomer. Care to see why?

Headspace has gotten millions of people into an ongoing meditation routine over the past couple years. How?

Unroll.Me has helped millions of users manage billions (probably?) of email subscriptions. How?

Waze has well over 50 million users (dating back to the stone ages of 2013), and just provided a big design revamp. How will they be onboarding their next 50 mil?

IFTTT's mobile onboarding had been whispered to be really good, so I thought I'd check it out myself!

Back in 2013, Skype reported having 300 million users, which would have made them more populous than the 4th largest country in the world. If they've kept growing like they were since, they're almost definitely now the 2nd. How did they...

Ashley Madison was recently hacked, threatening to expose the personal details of 38 million affair-having users of their site. This also prompts the realization "holy cow! they had 38 million users?!" How did they onboard them all? Read...

Apple just threw its hat into the music streaming ring. Will its onboarding make or break its ability to oust the likes of Spotify, Rdio, and others?

I've long found myself RSVPing through Eventbrite, but never knew firsthand what it was like to create an event. That changes today!

Hulu's onboarding is very quick. It's also curiously slow. How could this be? Read on!

Meerkat. Periscope. Titans of industry in our time*. How do they hold a mirror up to our lives?*The last couple weeks

Many have asked for an "ecommerce onboarding" teardown, and the timing was finally perfect as I needed to run up the first batch of UserOnboard stickers. Let's see how things fare!

Rdio has long been heralded for being the designer's choice for streaming and curating music. Their product is beautiful, but what's it like getting started with them?

Timehop has well over 12 million users, a staggering 6 million of which use the product every single day. How did an app with a user count equivalent to the population of Paris get so many people through the door at all, let alone coming...

Duolingo has 60 million users, which means they're about as big as... Italy. I try not to rate onboarding experiences against each other, but this one is simply one of the very best. Enjoy!

Kickstarter's impact is extremely impressive and almost definitely needs no introduction. Still, even I was shocked to find that they've handled over $1billion in pledges so far! Oh, and the Kickstarter project I made in this teardown is...