Experiment ONB-2026-14 · Variant Mockups

Lesson-First Onboarding

Duolingo's largest measured onboarding win moved the sign-up wall behind the first lesson (~+20% DAU). The same principle was never applied to the intake questionnaire, which still sits entirely in front of first value. These three arms test whether it should be — and isolate whether the mechanism is sequence or simply screen count.

Intake screen First value moment (lesson) Changed vs. control