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I agree with Carla that visual instructions are not useful in every
case. My classic example is router configuration. You show a stick
figure unpacking a routing, plugging in a router, and then 2500 panels
of the same stick figure typing...
However, I think it's possible to achieve a standardized visual
language of sorts. At least, by the fifth piece of Ikea furniture you
set up, the "language" of their figurines starts to make sense. It's an
alarming moment.
> The source of the problem is that there is no standardized visual
> language that all of us learn the same way we learn English (or
> other) grammar.
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