I’m very excited to talk about a technique that we’ve started using at LayerVault. We call it Progressive Reduction.
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How does one guide a new user from on-boarding, to low proficiency, to high proficiency? With progressive reduction, the UI adapts to the user’s proficiency.
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Your proficiency in a product will decay over time without usage. As such, the proficiency reflected in the UI decays over time. Essentially, your UI regresses without usage.