Try the app without your familiar starting point
An empty account and a clean installation reveal different gaps.
Getting startedAbout 2 min read
Your own environment is full of help
On a development machine, a session may already be signed in, examples may fill the lists and service settings may have been in place for weeks. It becomes easy to forget how much is ready before the first click.
Someone arriving for the first time has none of that history. An empty list needs a way to begin. A missing service setting needs an understandable failure. Installation may need steps that a familiar account never exercises.
Two different fresh starts
A private browser window or a new test account helps reveal sign-in assumptions, empty states and first-use navigation. It does not create a clean backend: existing database tables, administrator setup and server settings may still be present.
A separate clean-install rehearsal checks those deployment assumptions. For a project such as My Next Step, both matter before others depend on it. Use a safe test environment and synthetic information; do not experiment on someone’s live records.
Begin as someone who has not read the notes
Start with no saved items. Sign in, find the first action, create something, return later and try the next step. Note every point where you needed knowledge that the screen had not supplied.
That list is often more useful than another successful demonstration with an account I already know well.