Skip option not required on first page of installer

Created on 21 January 2025, 4 months ago

Observed during testing of current dev.

Problem/Motivation

The first page of the installer offers a selection of Content Types to preconfigure, plus two buttons:

  1. Next
  2. Skip this step

Possible user actions:

  1. If I don't select any Content Types, then click Next I go to the page to "Give your site a name".
  2. If I select one or more Content Types, then click Next I go to the page to "Give your site a name".
  3. If I don't select one or more Content Types, then click Skip I go to the page to "Give your site a name".
  4. If I select one or more Content Types, then click Skip I go to the page to "Give your site a name", but I confirm that the creation of any selected Content Types doesn't occur so it does skip that.

Action 1 and 3 are the same. You don't need a Skip button here. If you want to skip adding any Content Types, then don't select any and click Next. It would be strange for a user to select some Content Types and then click Skip.

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Proposed resolution

Remove "Skip this step" option for a cleaner UI and less confusing UX.

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Track: Installer

Created by

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§United Kingdom dunx

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  • Issue created by @dunx
  • πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈUnited States phenaproxima Massachusetts

    It's possible that "skip this step" was only added to ensure it's understood that you don't have to choose anything here, even though they're functionally identical.

    Assigning to @ckrina for input.

  • πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΈSpain ckrina Barcelona

    Thanks both for reviewing this!

    It's possible that "skip this step" was only added to ensure it's understood that you don't have to choose anything here

    That's exactly the reason. The hypothesis is that making it obvious that they don't have to choose will help in terms of clarity for new users, avoiding them asking themselves "If I click next will I mess it up?". Some might try to interact with the form first or even choose something they don't want because they assume the UI needs it. So its goal is to improve learnability and reduce friction on this step.

    That said, we'll test the installer on the user testing round on February and if we see it fails it we'll iterate on the proposal.

  • πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈUnited States phenaproxima Massachusetts

    Thanks @ckrina. Since this has now been confirmed as an intentional design decision, closing this issue out. But feel free to reopen if there's more discussion to be had here.

  • πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§United Kingdom dunx

    Thanks :)

  • πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈUnited States phenaproxima Massachusetts
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