About Shadcn UI Onboarding Screens Blocks
An onboarding screen guides a new user through the first minutes in your product, collecting a few answers or finishing a few setup tasks before the dashboard opens. These ten shadcn onboarding blocks cover question by question wizards, adaptive flows, a setup dialog, a profile checklist and multi step forms with a review step.
Every flow is a single React and TypeScript file built from shadcn ui components such as Card, Button, Progress, Dialog, Select, Slider and InputGroup, styled with Tailwind CSS theme tokens. Six of them use the shadcn Questionnaire component for keyboard friendly, one question at a time forms, and the other four use plain React state, so you can pick the level of structure your shadcn blocks need.
Key Elements of an Onboarding Flow
- Progress indicator: a counter, bar, stepper or step list that shows how much is left.
- Focused steps: one question or a small group of related fields at a time.
- Navigation controls: previous, skip and next actions, with skip only offered when a step is optional.
- Validation messages: a short explanation when a required answer is missing.
- Completion state: a confirmation with a clear next step, such as opening the dashboard.
Where and Why to Use Onboarding Screen Blocks
A good first run experience turns a blank account into a personalized workspace. It also gives you data, such as role and team size, that helps you tailor the product and your follow up emails. Since these are regular shadcn components, the flows match your dashboard visually and you only replace the sample questions with your own.
- Post sign up setup: collect role, team size and a workspace name before the first dashboard view.
- Dashboard personalization: let users pick widgets and a default time range from inside the app.
- Profile completion: nudge users to add a photo, time zone and contact details.
- Organisation setup: gather address details and connect integrations before the team joins.
- Lead qualification: ask agency or service clients about their company and needs before a call.
- Project creation: walk users through naming a project, connecting content and inviting teammates.
Onboarding Screen Blocks in This Collection
- Onboarding Screen 1: A dependable default for analytics or SaaS products that want four quick questions in a compact card, with a way to restart.
- Onboarding Screen 2: Gives the flow a branded welcome panel on desktop, which helps when users should see every upcoming step before they start.
- Onboarding Screen 3: A full page wizard for keyboard heavy audiences, ideal when you want plan and module choices to feel fast.
- Onboarding Screen 4: Use it when later questions depend on an early answer and users should understand why some steps disappear.
- Onboarding Screen 5: The calmest option, with no card and gentle transitions, suited to consumer apps and personal accounts.
- Onboarding Screen 6: Lets users reach the dashboard first and personalize it in a dialog, so setup never blocks access.
- Onboarding Screen 7: Built for agencies and studios that qualify leads, ending with a brief summary and a call to book a kickoff.
- Onboarding Screen 8: Fits apps where profile details can be filled in any order, editing each task in place without leaving the page.
- Onboarding Screen 9: Suits B2B products that need company details and connected services, with a review step before anything is saved.
- Onboarding Screen 10: Good for technical setups where each sub task unlocks the next, such as connecting a content source before inviting a team.
Similar Block Categories
- Sign-In Forms: the screen users see right before onboarding starts.
- Form Layouts: longer settings and profile forms for after the first run.
- Modal Dialogs: more dialog patterns for in app setup and confirmations.
- Empty State: guide users who skipped setup when a page has no data yet.
- How It Works: explain the same steps on your marketing site before sign up.
Accessibility
The Questionnaire based blocks render a real form in which each question is a fieldset with a legend, answers are native radio or checkbox inputs, and inactive questions are hidden and inert. The progress element has role=“progressbar” with a polite live region, errors use role=“alert”, and items expose their keyboard shortcuts through aria-keyshortcuts. Onboarding Screen 7 to 10 pair most fields with a shadcn Label, and Screen 7 labels its slider and country select.
A few controls deserve a second look. The company type chips and service cards in Onboarding Screen 7 are buttons that show selection only visually, so consider adding aria-pressed. The invite field in Screen 10 and the integration search in Screen 9 have no label, and the step lists in Screen 2 and 9 could mark the current step with aria-current. For Screen 5, consider limiting the slide and zoom transitions to users who have not asked for reduced motion.
Onboarding Screens FAQ
@shadcn/react package. It renders a form where each question is a fieldset with a legend, shows one question at a time and handles progress, skipping, validation and submission. Install @shadcn/react before adding these blocks.shortcuts="numbers", so pressing 1 to 4 picks an answer, and shows these keys in a hint row.new FormData(event.currentTarget) gives you every answer to send to your API. The blocks call preventDefault and only switch to a success state, so add your request there.
