Ready Dev: Update Onboarding Screens
In April last year I released the MVP of my first app. If you’re not familiar, the app is called Congress Vote Tracker. I commonly refer to this app as “Civic Duty” because my inspiration for it was a desire to make it easier to participate in one of the most important civic duties of a U.S. citizen — voting. I even used that inspiration for the icon.
I released this app just a few days before Deep Dish Swift 2023. I wasn’t even close to fully satisfied with where the app was back then, but I was feeling inspired to have something to talk about and show other people at the conference.
The app has come a long way since then and this week I wanted to show off one of the most recent parts I’ve updated.
The original Congress Vote Tracker onboarding
Simple and sweet but definitely not much to look at. These original onboarding screens were a bare bones attempt to tell users about a few different features of the app. The color decisions were based on the traditional colors of the Democratic, Republican and Independent political sectors in the US.
Spoiler - Civic Duty Plus
Recently new production versions of Congress Vote Tracker have only been containing bug fixes and UI tweaks here and there because I’ve been hard at work on features for the app’s upcoming premium offering, Civic Duty Plus.
That’s a story for a different week though. With not much new development shipping recently, I thought it was time to deliver something a little more impactful. What better to do than update the onboarding?
Updated Congress Vote Tracker Onboarding
While I’m not fully sold on the body text style here, I really am so much more happy with this design. I kept the same color inspiration but gave it a modern update with a frosted glass finish. I updated the copy on the onboarding pages to be more inspirational with a call to action for the user in hopes it would encourage them to check out more features of the app.
Sometimes it’s just nice to ship something a little bit more pretty and I feel great knowing the first impression users get these days is much better. I even updated the offer page for my in-app-purchase to match the onboarding.
(My super-talented wife crafted all of these custom icons)
I guess I also just can’t get enough of that gradient button 😂