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Stepper (wizard) 0:39

A 39-second explainer of Stepper (wizard), narrated over the same demo you can try yourself.

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What this video covers

A stepper - or wizard - breaks one long task into a short sequence of steps, showing where you are and how many are left. It turns a daunting wall of fields into a series of small, obviously-finishable chunks, and the visible progress keeps you moving toward the end.

Stepped, the same task never felt like much - each screen asked for only a little, and the filling bar kept tugging you toward "done". Faced with all of it on one page, the very same fields read as a chore. Nothing about the work changed; only how it was portioned and how clearly the finish line showed.

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