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Re: What do you call wordless technical procedures?
Subject:Re: What do you call wordless technical procedures? From:Laura Lemay <lemay -at- lauralemay -dot- com> To:voxwoman <voxwoman -at- gmail -dot- com> Date:Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:33:01 -0800
Visual instruction is the standard term. There's a book called "Open
Here" (Mijksenaar, Westendorp)
which provides a really good survey of design principles for
instructional design in general with a focus on
visual instruction.
The Ikea manuals are all online and you certainly learn an awful lot
just by studying how they're designed.
Laura
On Jan 18, 2010, at 5:41 AM, voxwoman wrote:
> John McWade, from the magazine "Before&After" calls this "visual
> instructions". I call it "Ikea-style"
> -Wendy
>
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:40 AM, Svi Ben-Elya <svi -at- svi -dot- co -dot- il> wrote:
>
>> 1. I am looking for a name that describes the type of symbolic
>> drawings
>> used to describe assembly of consumer products. I am not referring to
>> exploding diagrams or technical drawings from CAD programs.
>>
>> 2. Does anyone know of a training program for this? Theory?
>> Techniques?
>>
>> 3. Please send me offline or CC me at technical-writer -dot- haifa -at- philips -dot- com
>> .
>> I receive the digest and I need responses before a meeting on
>> training for
>> the coming year.
>>
>> Thank you in advance,
>>
>> Svi Ben-Elya
>>
>>
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