Marking automation platform Mailchimp uses a real-time password checker to prevent errors and delight, rather than frustrate, new users during signup.

Behance onboards new users to their website and mobile app with thoughtful tooltips, subtle hotspots, timely permission requests, and straightforward UX copy.

The tech industry moves fast. Sip's unique approach to delivering daily bite-sized digests helps users catch up on their schedule without any distractions.

Zova's smart fitness programs and interactive video-based onboarding help users stick to their resolutions and reach their fitness goals faster.

When a user opts to create their first typeform from scratch, they are taken through a detailed and helpful walkthrough.

Spotify's 2018 Wrapped campaign combines personalized music playlists, customized emails, and a data-driven microsite to keep users coming back for more.

Sift's unique approach to presenting trending news topics and building their experimental app helps readers stay informed without feeling overwhelmed.

GitHub's tooltips highlight new features, provide links to related support articles, and give helpful tips so users can get more value from the platform.

Forecast gives project managers more control over their projects, helping teams make better project decisions, adjust plans quickly, and stay efficient.

Albert uses powerful automation technology and a team of professional human advisers available via text message to improve their customers' finances.

Deputy's incentive-based onboarding helps users quickly learn their rich feature set, while encouraging users to complete the entire onboarding sequence.

Keeping a daily journal is helpful for many people—Reflectly helps you add structure to your journaling and reflect on your daily thoughts and problems.

Acorns' beautifully designed mobile and SaaS applications are built to make the tedious process of investing delightful.

Drops is a mobile application for both iOS and Android aimed at helping users learn new languages and vocabulary.

While Headspace's onboarding sequence might seem simple at first glance, the sequence has been carefully designed to help increase user engagement with the app.

Transforming the complexity of healthcare into a delightful experience isn't easy, but Zocdoc is on a mission to make managing your health a little easier.

Airtasker uses modal windows to onboard new users. Open this post for images designed to inspire your onboarding experience.

Product Hunt has a great user onboarding experience. Check out the image in this post for some onboarding inspiration.

InVision asks the users to take extra steps when deleting their prototypes to prevent them from making a mistake.

TurboTax precisely times their requests for feedback and do what they can to make it count while they have the user's attention.

Notion guides users through a personalized onboarding process that sets them up with what they most need from the app right away.

Trust is something Headspace takes seriously in all parts of their service, including the way they deliver their privacy policy to its users.

Audible has many longtime users which means it needs to cater for how the app previously worked, and how it works now.

It is Airbnb's ongoing optimization—to make booking accommodation even easier—that keeps its users coming back.

Wistia needs an onboarding flow to cater for all abilities and more importantly, a flow that demonstrates its value

Medium lets users read for free, prompting users to create an account when they try to take one of the many membership-based actions available on each screen.

The key that makes Photoshop Fix work on mobile lies with its limited but appropriate functionality that suits the mobile context.

Snapchat has an incredibly engaging new-feature release style. See the screenshots inside this post for feature release inspiration.

HubSpot implements personalization, clear navigation, and sample data to onboard new users. Here's some screenshot inspiration for onboarding UX.

Honey engages users with a real life use-case during the onboarding process. See the images inside this post for UX inspiration.

HubSpot uses in-app upgrade prompts to entice users to buy their advanced SaaS products. Here's an example of how they use an in-app message to upsell.

The innovative app Duolingo has gamified language learning with various incentives that keep users active and engaged in the long run.

Nike's running app game-ifies the user experience to boost engagement. See the screenshots inside this post for UX inspiration.

Alignable has a great onboarding experience, featuring a progress bar, hotspots, and a personalized message. See the images inside this post for UX inspiration.

KTHX has a pretty neat mobile onboarding process, including personalization and a creative progress bar. See inside this post for onboarding inspiration.

Disqus personalizes their onboarding process to offer a content-specific experience for users. See the images inside this post for onboarding inspiration.

Webflow limits their user's frustration with a confirmation modal as a precautionary pre-delete step. See the screenshot inside this post for UX inspiration.

Codecademy uses in-app success messages to engage and excite existing users. See the images inside this post for UX inspiration.

Slack and Yelp both use tooltips to release new features to existing users. Inside this post, you'll find inspiring new-feature release screenshots.

Paypal uses tooltips and modals during their product tour. Here are a few screenshots designed to inspire your product tour.

Slack has an impressively engaging onboarding experience. In this post you'll find screenshots designed to inspire your own new-user onboarding.

Duolingo uses a game-ified new feature release style to excite existing users. See the images inside this post for feature release inspiration.

Doodle uses a transparent-background modal window to release their redesign. Check out this screenshot for redesign inspiration.

Skype uses full-screen modal windows to release their product redesign. See the images inside this post for some product-redesign inspiration.

Google Hangouts uses a modal series to onboard new users.

Gusto guides new users through a very specific checklist during onboarding.

GrowthHackers uses a unique progress tracker during the onboarding process in the form of an objective checklist. These images provides onboarding inspiration.

There are a few noteworthy differences in the way that SnapApp and Toast use help widgets. See the images inside to get an idea of their respective values.

Hubspot uses a confirmation modal to interrupt user flows during the automated email publishing process. See the image inside this post for modal inspiration.

Vimeo recently released their new features using modal windows. See the images inside this post to get inspired while designing your own feature release.

Clubhouse uses modal windows to onboard new users. See the screen recording inside this post for some onboarding design inspiration.

Blue Apron's registration for for new signups is beautiful. It onboards new users to their personalized meal plan effectively.

LeadPages has a great offboarding/cancellation flow to help reduce churn by helping users. It also collects data to help their product team improve over time.

Lyft uses modal windows for feature announcements and lifecycle nudges.

Quora uses a tooltip for feature discovery.

The New York Times uses a modal window to ask users about their preferences for personalization.

Lemonade's disruptive insurance software has an elegant minimal user onboarding that gets you to a quote in minutes. Here's the sequence in screenshots.

Google uses a simple product tour to introduce its product redesign in Forms.

Indiegogo uses a modal window to announce a new feature.

InVision introduces users to their editor with a pretty and effective product tour.

Online fashion retailer Grana has a lean and elegant website with a clean UX. Users can navigate and shop quickly and without fuss.

The design of Sellbrite's free-trial sign-up page helps pull users into the product, encouraging them to complete the form.

GoDaddy walks new users through a fun and interactive onboarding tutorial to help them set up their website.

When Google Calendar rolled out its latest redesign, it highlighted the major changes without wasting their time on a full tutorial.

Duolingo invites new users to try out their product and asks for a sign-up only when users have experienced the product's value.

HQ Trivia gives users the opportunity to gain 'extra lives' by sharing the app. This creates a viral referral loop.

When users log into their account, Redbooth uses the buffer time between pressing the login button and fetching the account to display value-adding tips.

The team at Sellbrite has recently updated the design of their free-trial sign-up modal, making it even more user friendly and earning some extra UX points.

When new users sign up for Yotpo's free plan, a series of tooltips guides them through each step of the process of crafting their first review request email.

Headspace's redesign makes their product more nuanced and slightly more complicated, but they highlight the benefits of their additions in their onboarding.

As users navigate the site, LinkedIn cleverly teases out hints of valuable information, promising to grant access to a wealth of knowledge with an upgrade.

When Mint runs a credit score for new users, they also give users the option to view an educational breakdown about what factors into their score.

In Evernote's user onboarding, they give new users an interactive checklist to complete to familiarize themselves with the tool.

In GoAnimate's onboarding, they use a step-by-step video creation product tour, showing new users just how simple the tool is to use.

By entering sales forecast data into the Heresy's sales management platform during onboarding, users are able to see how the tool can help them succeed.

To show new users this value as quickly as possible, Adbeat offers three advertiser examples so all new users have to do is click.

Trello designed a Welcome Board for new users, and filled out the fields to demonstrate just what users can do in their board.

In Crazy Egg's onboarding, they collect information and congratulate new users as steps are completed.

Soapbox welcomes new users with friendly casual copy, and a demonstration tutorial of their tool in use.

When changes are made to their software, Webflow greets users back into the tool with a 'Since You've Been Gone' modal window, listing the changes and updates.

In this example, GetFeedback uses a 5-point NPS survey to get a sense of whether or not their blog post was helpful.

Rather than generalize their NPS survey, Google Sheets requests other relevant information to help organize customer-response data.

To make users aware of their "Jump to" feature, Slack displays a small tooltip that demonstrates the purpose of the feature.

In their onboarding, MoviePass zooms in on some key ways users can benefit from the app.

Google Sheets introduced their new view history feature with a helpful modal window.

For users new to viewing Stories, Instagram displays a quick menu of the finger actions required to successfully navigate the Stories feature.

In this example, Adobe uses an NPS survey in Photoshop to gain feedback that will help them improve their product.

In this example, MailChimp thoughtfully notifies the user of a new update to its product.

GMAIL's carefully designed transition to ensure users see it as a change for the better.

Monzo responds to user vigilance intelligently with a professional, fast, and friendly onboarding flow.

Gmail uses contextual awareness to prevent the most common email related user error

GoDaddy walks new users through a fun and interactive onboarding tutorial to help them set up their website.

CoSchedule ramps up its learning curve for new users. The onboarding flow is designed to get its users to “learn by doing” for super-fast knowledge cumulation.

Because HubSpot is in constant motion, they need to keep their customers in the loop. They do this frequently with new feature modals and tooltips.

Grammarly uses informative and reassuring feedback to make the experience of editing as pleasurable as possible.

The business service is entirely free, so the only barrier to entry is to get set-up, which Instagram makes super easy with their business onboarding flow.

Warby Parker—an online retailer of prescription glasses and sunglasses— have designed a practical product picker to help their customers make the right choice.

Basecamp offer's a helpful hand to get the user through the boring basics fast

To get users to their first sip with ease, Vivino puts their app into context with a simple, fun and visual walkthrough.

To really drive your social media forward, you need to get down with the data, which Later encourages here by highlighting it's analytic essentials.