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The Seven-Step Hostage Situation You Call Onboarding

Product Management Tech Brief By HackerNoon · 2025-10-08 · 6 min

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This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: . Users clicking Next so fast the cursor blurred. One opened the console to force-skip. What I learned about interfaces that teach themselves. Check more stories related to product-management at: . You can also check exclusive content about #onboarding , #saas , #product-design , #ux-design , #design , #ui-design , #ui-ux , #hackernoon-top-story , and more. This story was written by: @hackercm8riv27c00002e6mhctmxnpn . Learn more about this writer by checking @hackercm8riv27c00002e6mhctmxnpn's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com . I watched a user open the browser console and type commands to force-skip my onboarding flow. That's when I knew I'd built a hostage situation, not help.

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