Tutorial: Building an Interactive Product Demo

This tutorial walks through building your first interactive product demo using Product Demo Generator.

What you will build

By the end of this tutorial, you will have a click-through demo of a product workflow that prospects or new customers can explore without live product access.

Step 1: Connect a source

Go to Product Demo Generator > New Demo and connect a source: your product documentation, a staging environment, or a set of annotated screenshots. For this tutorial, we will use screenshots.

Step 2: Upload and order your screenshots

Upload screenshots of the workflow you want to demo, in the order a user would encounter them. OptoGlide automatically detects likely interactive elements, buttons, fields, menus, on each screenshot.

Step 3: Add narration and callouts

For each step, add a short narration line describing what is happening and why it matters to the viewer. Keep each callout under two sentences; demos with concise callouts have meaningfully better completion rates than ones with long paragraphs per step.

Step 4: Configure interactive hotspots

Confirm or adjust the automatically detected hotspots on each screenshot, the clickable areas that advance the demo to the next step. Test the flow using the Preview panel.

Step 5: Brand and export

Apply your Brand Studio template to ensure consistent colors and typography, then publish the demo to get an embeddable link, or export it for use in a sales presentation.

Step 6: Track engagement

Once published, view engagement data under Demo Analytics, including completion rate and the step where most viewers drop off, useful for identifying confusing steps worth simplifying.