Onboarding Game

1. Problem

Newly onboarded users often do not try any product after account opening, resulting in low engagement and retention.

β†’ DNSE needed a new onboarding plan to increase product exploration, boost transactions, and improve user retention.

🎯 Goal

  • Increase active users in 2025 (Go live planned for July/2025)
  • Share of new users using at least 02 DNSE’s product
  • Grow first-time deposit, trading, margin/derivative/bond usage in every month

πŸ” Research Insight

  • 62% of new users don’t do any actions within 14 days after account creation
  • Users prefer “step-by-step guidance” and a “sense of achievement”
  • Need a model compatible with various account states (just opened, deposited, traded, etc.)

Data from Customer Love team

Chart 1: 100 opened accounts β†’ 38 deposited

Chart 2: 38 deposited β†’ 24 made a transaction

Chart 3: 24 transacted β†’ 6 used 2+ products

✍️ My role

As UX Lead, I was responsible for:

  • Designing the entire user flow, task logic and supporting UI
  • Building the layout and status-based mission UI
  • Collaborating with stakeholders (Growth, Customer Love, Data, CRM) to understand reward logic and data tracking
  • Assigning tasks to 2 teammates:
    • 1 UI designer for visuals
    • 1 motion designer for animations

🧭 Solution

πŸ’‘ Apply gamification model to encourage product discovery

Onboarding Quest – 8 missions

  • Users complete step-by-step missions and get rewards (Stars + stock gift)
  • Real-time check: Tasks auto-complete and notify when conditions are met
  • Bonus logic: Extra reward for completing 4/6 core missions

Optimize UI/UX

  • Task status clearly shown: Not started / Pending verification / Completed
  • Designed with mobile-first mindset, for both app and web
  • Clear, minimal onboarding pages to explain the rules from the start

πŸ“Š Key Metrics

MetricBeforeTarget after Game golive
Deposit success rate38.1%45.8%
Transaction success rate24%26.4%
1st deposit/ month~1.2001.574
1st transaction/ month (>1M VND)~600757
Number of users using Margin/Derivatives20-30%increase 30-40%

πŸ“Ž Deliverables

  • UX flow for quests and logic displays based on user’s onboarding steps
  • Hi-fi flow for desktop & mobile
  • Animation notes
  • Documentations for Products and Customer Love team