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by bryanlanders 4994 days ago
A few ideas:

Since there are so few steps, you could show the current and total number of steps to encourage the new user. (UI pattern ideas: http://ui-patterns.com/explore/collections/steps-left)

You could have the button on step 1 read, "next", since the user might be confused about what a "profile" is at this point.

Does making the user find a link in step 1 push them away from refer.ly and out of the sign up flow? Would the search seen on the homepage be simpler there?

Step 2 could be its own screen (rather than the modal.)

Again, the orange button on step 2 could be "next". I was confused as to what the 2 CTAs did...does "Save to Profile" have a different result than "Skip, I'll do this later"?

I hit the "Skip..." button and didn't see the step 3 modal as pictured in the blog post. Maybe there could be some sort of congratulatory moment there regardless of the path taken where the user is rewarded and welcomed to their new profile showing their first Referly product. Something like: "Good Job! Here's the link you just created on your new profile. A few ideas for what to do next..."

Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing.