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Developer Onboarding Accelerator
The first hour with your platform is usually where a developer decides whether to keep going. Most platforms treat onboarding as a documentation problem. It's not.
This is a full redesign of your developer activation journey, from signup to the moment they've built something real. It means direct research with your developers, not guesswork. You'll get a detailed design spec and an implementation roadmap your engineering team can start using immediately.
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Four weeks. One complete redesign.
WK 01
Research and discovery
- Stakeholder interviews to understand your platform, goals, and constraints
- Developer research: watching real developers attempt to onboard
- Competitive analysis of 3–5 comparable platforms
- Agentic usability: I evaluate a cross section of AI agents building on your platform
WK 02
Concept development
- Design principles for your specific context and developer audience
- 2–3 onboarding concepts with different strategic bets
- Team review session to align on direction
- Concept refinement based on feedback
WK 03
Design execution
- High-fidelity prototypes of the redesigned onboarding experience
- Documentation improvements and error message rewrites
- Copy and UX writing for the moments that matter most
- Validation session with 2–3 developers (where possible)
WK 04
Implementation planning
- Engineering implementation roadmap with sequenced recommendations
- Success metrics and measurement framework
- 90-minute delivery session with your full team
- Two weeks of async Q&A support post-delivery
What you get
Your deliverables
- Redesigned onboarding experience (high-fidelity prototypes + documentation improvements)
- User Research Synthesis Report (what developers actually struggle with, not what you assumed going in)
- Implementation Roadmap: sequenced recommendations your engineering team can execute
- Success metrics and measurement framework
- 90-minute delivery session with your full team
- Two weeks of async Q&A support post-delivery
$15,000 fixed fee
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