These are screenshots from Bamboo, Wacom’s drawing app for iPad.
What could be improved:
Wacom could have dropped the use of the 3-screen new features marketing intro. There was no way to skip this (at first I thought I could dismiss it by tapping outside the box, but to no avail). It doesn’t really teach anything, instead focusing on product feature points. All of which, by the way, you could read about in the App Store.
What was good:
Aside from the intro piece, I found the first-run experience light-handed and playful; key things for a drawing and sketching app. I could choose to go into a sample album, or I could jump right a blank album and start drawing.
I chose the sample album, in which the first page uses the drawing space to provide image-only instructions. I was allowed to draw over/erase the instructions, playfully reinforcing sketchbook behavior. There was only one modal prompt which asked me if I were left- or right-handed. When I made that selection the nib-chooser popover opened by default as a prod to get me drawing. Everything else was left to exploration.
I found this app to make good use of the show interact, don’t tell method of letting people jump in and use an app to learn.