What is the best way to ask user if they would like to proceed to a new step after completing a wizard

Question

I have a 2 step wizard where at the end of successful completion of the wizard, an object is created.

Once the object is created, the user will need to take an extra step to actually use this object.

At the end of the wizard, I'd like to ask the user whether they want to just finish creating the object or if they want to take the next step. How should this be displayed to the user? Would a modal dialog be too intrusive and alarming?

Sample of what the wizard looks like.

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Answer 1

I would like to propose that there should be three things the user should know at the end of a guided task flow:

1. Whether his/her task was successfully completed, and what the results were.
2. Whether he/she can create multiple objects with the same wizard, without leaving the create environment. Loop the create process.
3. Whether there are next steps that he can do with the created object. This step is usually optional and mostly these are launch points to different applications or different parts of same application.

So you can go with something like the wizard shown in the image above.

Hope this helps you!

Cheers, Nishant

Answer 2

I would suggest putting it in a final confirmation screen where the user can see details of the object created and launch it as needed. The screen might look something like this

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This is very similar to the installation completion wizard screens which allow users to launch an application after installing it as shown below