Re: Ikea method of technical writing (graphical instructions)?

[Chris Borokowski <athloi -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

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.

--- Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca> wrote:

> 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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