From the course: Technical Writing: Quick Start Guides
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Ask users to review your quickstart guide
From the course: Technical Writing: Quick Start Guides
Ask users to review your quickstart guide
- Don't be nervous, but the time has come. It's time to share your draft quick-start guide with users and get their input before you publish it. These reviewer users may point out a few things they found confusing so you might have a bit of rewriting to do on the guide. But it's just as likely that their review will prove your guide is useful and easy to follow. Either way, you simply must get their feedback, so let's take a deep breath and get started. If you had all the time in the world you could ask reviewers some nice to know questions about the look and feel of the guide or whether they like the shade of blue you've used as a background color. But most quick-start guide projects are on tight deadlines and that type of feedback is optional. The essential feedback, the kind you must get from users, is whether they can use the guide to complete the tasks required to get started with your product. The first step in getting users' feedback on your guide is recruiting users to review…
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