10 tips to Create Outstanding Application Introduction Screen
hello Flutter learners!! this is Uma, today I am going to share some secrets to create an amazing onboarding screen. In simple term, Onboarding is Application Introduction screen which guides the user about the application’s main functionalities.
so let’s dive into Application Introduction Screen or OnBoarding Screen:
What is Onboarding Screen?
Have you installed any application and could understand the iconography to perform tasks or don’t know how to perform functions for which you have downloaded the application? what you will do? you will straight away uninstall it right?
Onboarding screens are screens that will be a few explanatory Application UI screens, that will provide a description of the main things a user can do inside the Application.
In Technical terms, it is known as FTUE which means First Time User Experience with the application. To make our Application better and user friendly will help us for the application’s successful retention and boost usability to users.
How these screens Lookalike? Let me show you the Onboarding screen Example.
Tips to create a User-friendly Application Onboarding Screen are as below:
Tip: 1) Make it Simple:
Make it very simple for the user to understand, make it very clear and concise, and clutter-free. Priorities your task which should be mentioned in the intro screen. only mention the most important things, don’t confuse the audience with too much information.
Tip: 2) Rather than conveying the message in the text show them in an interactive way.
Don’t bore your users!!! with information, Nowadays everyone likes to using interactive gif or some other way. Rather than telling them Show them what it does.
Tip: 3) Understand the mind of the user
Few things like login functionality, sharing, and other such concept are very clear to every user you don’t have to overwhelm them with simple things they already aware of. priorities task, understand what type of user will come to your application what will be his mindset, what he wanted to do inside the app!!
Tip: 4) Organise Flow
Manage the flow according to how the user will interact with available options
Tip: 5) Use Familiar Icons
Use appropriate icon which is familiar to the user. Like for home, menu, like, share such icons are common you can make it creative but should be simply understandable to Application User without confusion.
Tip: 6) Make it in the way you are educating the user about the Application as an ongoing process.
it should help the user to know how to work with that functionality. if the particular function is very complex you can mention numbering to flow how the user can achieve a goal by following it.
Tip: 7) Explain Unfamiliar Functionality of Application
Try to include those application functionalities which user may not aware of. mention things that are complex or new to the Application user.
Tip: 8) Explain Empty state Activity:
If the Application contains such activity where there will not be any available scenario regarding what and what the user will be able to create.
then like above you should guide the user about that in an interactive way.
Tip: 9) If you require any permission should mention it here
If you require in-app permission like to have access to the gallery, map, camera, or storage you should guide users on how they can allow it.
Tip: 10) Always provide a SKIP button
you should always give the user flexibility to jump over. You can provide a skip button which will redirect the user to the main screen.
Bonus Tip:- User is God to you!!!
you have to provide the best possible way for users to feel your app’s worth, you should provide a good impression while users first come to you. according to statistics, 70% of users uninstall the application if they are unable to perform things on the first go.
Everyone is busy and in a hurry so our main focus should be how the user will find it easy to help him perform his task. NO ONE LIKES COMPLEXITY so as a developer it’s your duty to do it in a way that fulfills users requirements in a proper and efficient manner
Don’t forget!!! Speed is also necessary! yeah, you hard it right, even if you make it the world's best users will only take it according to their need and the speed of things to get it done.
In the next article, I will provide practical steps to create an onboarding screen in android studio.
Hope this article helps you to do better in Mobile Application Development.
