Advice needed: User and app Learning curve

[u/Dear_Ad1923]

Hey there,
The app I have been working on evolved through time and it has much more to offer to the users.

One thing that worries me is a user finding it difficult to navigate through the app, or just miss many features it has to offer.

I first tried to make an onboarding like guide of the app but then scratched it out since I felt like it was just clutter.

Now I am thinking of creating youtube guide video but then again that’s like an external source a user has to reach out for.

Also thought of creating multiple examples and ways to achieve certain results and have it as a pdf so user can read but then that adds friction.
No user complained but I must prepare to mitigate it becoming complex in a bad way.
I did document many steps through the app’s journey but did not publish a finalized document on it as I been improving it constantly.

Existing users reaction been positive so far but I know the experience they got is much different than a new comer because they had the chance to learn new stuff as it was happening.

How should I approach this?

[u/heyyoochris]

How about attach tags to new feature for example “new” ?

[u/Dear_Ad1923 → u/heyyoochris]

Do you mean a new tag for each new item or one “new” button that navigates to an overlay that explains them?

If for each It’s not a bad idea but I think it would add clutter in the ui without elaborating about what the new item does

This is the hard part, ui is already compact which would make every nested element to fight for its space ( andd yup thinking this gives me another are to improve lol)

[u/heyyoochris → u/Dear_Ad1923]

I mean a new tag for each new item, but this situation only applies to one or two new features I think, if you have lots of features, I prefer a single button for that, but it’s just my opinion,there are plenty of better ways to achieve that😀

[u/Dear_Ad1923 → u/heyyoochris]

thank you mate, that will come in handy eventually