GitHub user mengw15 added a comment to the discussion: Onboarding new 
non-developer users

Thanks for bringing this up. We recently had a very similar experience 
onboarding users from a biology lab. They are domain experts but had not used 
Texera before.

Some of the main issues we observed were:

* **Account onboarding:** Account activation currently requires manual 
approval, and users are not notified after approval, so they did not know when 
they could start.
* **Dataset selection/upload:** Users were unsure how to select an existing 
dataset or upload their own data.
* **Computing units:** Creating/configuring a CU was not obvious, and users 
could not find/use the Run button until a CU was created.
* **Downloading results:** Downloaded files were missing their file extensions.

Our main takeaway was similar to what you described: the workflow itself was 
not the main difficulty. Users were getting stuck on basic platform concepts 
and navigation that are obvious to us because we use Texera regularly.

GitHub link: 
https://github.com/apache/texera/discussions/8447#discussioncomment-18390372

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