DocumentCode
3583214
Title
Away with words! how to create wordless documentation
Author
Hofmann, Patrick
Volume
1
fYear
1998
Firstpage
49
Lastpage
50
Abstract
How do you convey an entire set of complex instructions without words, and why would you even bother? Since he first quipped this question, Patrick Hofmann has deleted countless words from the pages of hardware user manuals. Patrick is a technical illustrator and writer who, with the help of his team at Quarry Integrated Communications in Waterloo, Canada, creates wordless documentation and visual solutions for his clients. In this session, you will learn what he learned: how to use wordlessness to downsize multi-lingual sets ofassembly manuals, and how to illustrate complex instructions with the same concern for usability as we have with writing.
Keywords
Documentation; Human factors; Legal factors; Manuals; Usability; Writing;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Professional Communication Conference, 1998. IPCC 98. Proceedings. 1998 IEEE International
Print_ISBN
0-7803-4890-7
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IPCC.1998.726983
Filename
726983
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