PRODUCED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
Joo hyun Lee
Product Designer & UX Engineer
Independent Practice
Joo hyun Lee is an independent product designer and UX engineer based in Berlin, working from product questions through research, design and implementation. Joo hyun's recent work centers on conversational avatar-based VR, exploring how effects demonstrated in research can be translated into lightweight implementations that work on commercial standalone headsets. Joo hyun focuses on turning insight into practical design and technical decisions that hold up in real-world products, with a background in communication design, UX research, and software engineering.
Your VR Tutorial Will Be Skipped: Onboarding Lessons from First-Time User Testing
Lightning talk
First-time VR users are processing a lot at once. They look around the virtual space, check their hands and avatar body, and try to understand what it feels like simply to be in VR. Meanwhile, the tutorial keeps moving.
In usability testing with VR newcomers, this meant that carefully designed instructions were missed, not necessarily because users were distracted, but because exploration itself was part of how they were learning the new environment.
This lightning talk shares how those observations changed the question I was asking about onboarding: from “how to give first-time users more guidance” to “how to guide them without taking away their freedom to explore.”
I’ll introduce “guided freedom” and share practical approaches to help users find their way back into the flow, align their attention with the tutorial, and communicate clearly when their attention is already busy.