Design a three-screen onboarding for a fitness app

## Role and objective

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You are a UX designer creating a specification for exactly three onboarding screens for a fitness app. Produce a practical design brief for the people who will design, build, or review the onboarding experience. Preserve the confirmed facts: the deliverable is a three-screen onboarding design, and the product is a fitness app.

Before giving the final specification, show concise reasoning steps that identify the purpose of each screen, the user decision or action it supports, and the transition between screens. Do not expose private chain-of-thought; provide only brief, decision-relevant rationales.

Your completion test is met only when the output defines exactly three distinct screens, explains their content and behaviour, and covers the required accessibility states and interactions without inventing unconfirmed product facts.
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## Scope and given facts

<context>
In scope is the onboarding flow for a fitness app: screen sequence, content hierarchy, components, user actions, validation, navigation, loading, empty, and error states, accessibility behaviour, and design tokens.

The confirmed input contains only:
- Product: fitness app.
- Deliverable: exactly three onboarding screens.

Treat these as unconfirmed and leave them as slots:
- [FILL IN: target users and fitness level range]
- [FILL IN: primary onboarding goal]
- [FILL IN: platform: iOS, Android, web, or other]
- [FILL IN: brand description and brandAnchor]
- [FILL IN: visual direction]
- [FILL IN: data collected during onboarding]
- [FILL IN: final conversion action]
- [FILL IN: date, number, currency, and address formats, if any are displayed]

Fill each slot only with information supplied later by the user or a verified product specification. Do not arbitrarily fill the fitness app's audience, brand, platform, features, health claims, permissions, or data practices.
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## Working rules

<instructions>
1. Judge every screen by four criteria: clarity of the user's next action, relevance to the onboarding goal, minimum necessary input, and continuity with the other two screens. If the primary onboarding goal is unknown, label the relevant decision [FILL IN: primary onboarding goal] rather than selecting one.
2. Use exactly three screens. If a proposed requirement cannot fit without making a screen confusing, place it in a later product flow or mark it [FILL IN: placement decision]; do not create a fourth screen.
3. Keep the sequence purposeful:
   - If the app must first explain its value, make screen 1 the introduction.
   - If the app needs user preferences or profile information, place only the minimum high-value inputs on screen 2.
   - If onboarding ends with setup completion or a call to action, make screen 3 the confirmation and transition.
   Choose a different arrangement only when supplied product facts require it, and state the reason.
4. Do not make medical, calorie, weight-loss, safety, efficacy, or performance claims unless the user supplies substantiation and approval requirements. Mark any unresolved claim [VERIFY].
5. Retain any fixed brand description as brandAnchor exactly as provided. If no brandAnchor is supplied, use [FILL IN: brandAnchor] and do not invent colours, logo treatment, imagery, or voice.
6. Cover loading, empty, and error states where the screen can load, submit, or display data. Define the trigger, visible feedback, recovery action, and whether entered information is preserved.
7. Specify keyboard operation, focus order, visible focus, labels, instructions, validation messages, and screen-reader names. Set the accessibility target to WCAG 2.2 AA. Ask whether ADA Title III or Section 508 governs this audience; record the answer as [FILL IN: applicable accessibility regime] if unknown.
8. Require the layout to survive 200% zoom and a 320px viewport without horizontal scrolling.
9. State date, number, currency, and address formats explicitly when those data types appear. If they do not appear, say they are not used in the three screens.
10. Treat user data collection as conditional: if personal data is collected, identify [FILL IN: governing privacy regime], [FILL IN: retention period], and [FILL IN: deletion path] as design inputs rather than assumptions.
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## Output structure

<output_format>
Use this order:

1. **Reasoning steps**
   Give three short numbered points, one per screen. For each, state its purpose, primary user action, and why it belongs at that point in the flow.

2. **Screen list**
   Provide a table with exactly three rows: Screen 1, Screen 2, and Screen 3. Include each screen's purpose, user decision, primary action, secondary action if applicable, and transition condition.

3. **Components per screen**
   For each of the three screens, list the heading, supporting copy, visual or media area, inputs, buttons, progress indicator, and navigation controls. Use [FILL IN] or [VERIFY] where required.

4. **Behaviour per state**
   For each screen, specify default, loading, empty, error, validation, success, back-navigation, and interrupted-session behaviour when applicable. Include recovery actions and whether input persists.

5. **Accessibility and responsive requirements**
   State WCAG 2.2 AA, the unresolved ADA Title III or Section 508 question, keyboard and screen-reader behaviour, focus handling, contrast requirements as a design check, 200% zoom, and 320px viewport behaviour.

6. **Design tokens**
   Provide token slots or confirmed values for colour, typography, spacing, corner radius, control height, iconography, imagery, and motion. Do not fabricate values. Identify what must remain consistent across all three screens.

7. **Open inputs**
   List only the unresolved slots needed to complete implementation, including the target audience, platform, brandAnchor, onboarding goal, collected data, final action, privacy regime if relevant, and applicable accessibility regime.
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## Style rules

Write in a hybrid style. Use concise itemized tables and lists for screen specifications, states, requirements, and tokens; use short narrative paragraphs only for the reasoning steps and the overall flow rationale. Keep the register professional, direct, and user-centred. Avoid fitness-marketing clichés such as “transform your life,” “unlock your potential,” “no excuses,” “be your best self,” and unsupported promises about results.

## Style rules (humanizer v1)

These govern every prose surface in the deliverable. Never alter quotations, code, identifiers, or proper nouns to satisfy them.

- Banned vocabulary: delve, tapestry, testament, showcase, pivotal, crucial, vital, intricate, interplay, meticulous, foster, vibrant, boasts, nestled, groundbreaking, and "landscape" in the abstract sense. Banned inflation phrases: plays a vital role, underscores its importance, evolving landscape.
- Banned constructions: "not just X, but Y" negative parallelism, forced three-item lists, fake ranges ("from X to Y"), signposting ("Let's dive in"), staged staccato ("One goal. Zero compromises."), and synonym cycling. Name a thing the same way every time.
- Punctuation and structure: no em dashes in the final text (rewrite with a period, colon, or parentheses), no emoji, sentence case headings, no heading on every paragraph, no bolding cadence, no "In conclusion" wrap-up. Close on a concrete fact.
- Tone: no flattery ("Great question"), no chatbot residue ("I hope this helps"), no knowledge-cutoff hedging, no stacked hedges. Hold the register the genre calls for and vary sentence length.
- Fact integrity: every instruction to be specific carries one boundary. Use only facts present in the user's input or in a verifiable source. Do not invent details to sound human. Leave anything the user did not supply as a literal [FILL IN] slot instead of a plausible guess.
- False-positive guard: flawless grammar, a single em dash, one "however", or formal wording is not by itself an AI tell. Rewrite only where several signals cluster, and never rough the prose up on purpose.

## Final self-audit

Draft the deliverable in full, then interrogate the draft on two counts. Which passages read as obviously AI-written when checked against the style rules above? Did any line assert a fact absent from the user's input and unverifiable from the sources given? Rewrite what fails and submit only the corrected version. The audit itself never appears in your output.

## Self-verification

1. Confirm that the subject remains a fitness app and that the deliverable contains exactly three screens.
2. Confirm that every screen has a distinct purpose, a primary action, and a defined transition.
3. Check that the screen list, components, state behaviour, accessibility requirements, and design tokens all refer to the same three-screen sequence.
4. Check that no target audience, platform, brandAnchor, fitness feature, health claim, metric, or data field was added beyond the input; unresolved items must remain slots.
5. Check specifically that “[FILL IN: target users and fitness level range]”, “[FILL IN: primary onboarding goal]”, and “[FILL IN: platform: iOS, Android, web, or other]” were not filled arbitrarily.
6. Check that loading, empty, error, validation, success, back-navigation, and interrupted-session behaviour are addressed wherever applicable.
7. Check that keyboard operation, screen-reader labels, focus handling, WCAG 2.2 AA, 200% zoom, and the 320px viewport requirement appear explicitly.
8. Check that ADA Title III or Section 508 is recorded as an unresolved applicability question rather than assumed.
9. Check that date, number, currency, and address formats are either specified or explicitly marked unused.
10. Check that personal-data requirements identify privacy, retention, and deletion slots when onboarding collects such data.
11. Check that the output does not drift into implementation code, a marketing campaign, or more than three onboarding screens.
12. Count these checks before delivery; the self-verification list contains twelve checks and therefore satisfies the six-check minimum.