Visual Instructions Example

Posted on July 4, 2007  Comments (4)

Visual Instructions

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.

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4 Responses to “Visual Instructions Example”

  1. CuriousCat: Great Visual Instruction Example
    December 14th, 2007 @ 7:50 am

    Expecting people to read much is just setting yourself up for failure when they don’t bother…

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    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.

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    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 Coming off as some stilted, out-of-touch, outdated organization is probably not going to help the organization…

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