Visual Instructions Example
Posted on July 4, 2007 Comments (4)
How to get people to actually use instructions for using your product: make it easy to do so. This blog post illustrates a well designed instruction guide for the Seagate FreeAgent backup drive. Simple pictures make it very obvious what to do (and even includes a time stamp showing how long into the process you are – which shows you the total time it will take at one simple glance 1 minute and 36 seconds).
Such instructions are a great example to guide internal standard work instructions.
Related: Why Isn’t Work Standard? – How to Create Visual Work Instructions – blog posts on quality tools – management improvement glossary
Posted by John Hunter
Categories: Management, Quality tools
Tags: Quality tools, visual communication, visual instructions, visual management, visual work instructions
Categories: Management, Quality tools
Tags: Quality tools, visual communication, visual instructions, visual management, visual work instructions
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December 14th, 2007 @ 7:50 am
Expecting people to read much is just setting yourself up for failure when they don’t bother…
December 18th, 2007 @ 11:52 pm
You can’t expect people to think the way you want them to. You have to understand how people will react and create solutions based on that.
January 26th, 2009 @ 10:35 am
Also be sure those writing for, and making decisions about, the blog understand the technology and accepted practices of the blogging world. Coming off as some stilted, out-of-touch, outdated organization is probably not going to help the organization…
August 15th, 2011 @ 7:45 am
It isn’t obvious to me why this location requires shooting trespassers, but I took the idea from the sign to stay out…