From the course: Technical Writing: Quick Start Guides
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Incorporate visuals into your quickstart guide
From the course: Technical Writing: Quick Start Guides
Incorporate visuals into your quickstart guide
- Have you ever heard the saying, it's better to be useful than pretty? No? Of course you haven't heard it. I made it up just for this course. But, it's better to be useful than pretty is a great saying when you're incorporating visuals into your quick start guide. Sure, you want the guide to be attractive, but any visual you add, whether it's a drawing, flow chart, or screenshot, must be useful to your user. Space is tight, and your readers need to use your guide to understand or do something they care about. A well written quick start guide combines written explanations and useful visuals to help people understand how to get started with your product, process, or tool. Let's look at the type of visuals commonly used in quick start guides. If you've ever put together furniture, you'll be familiar with this one: drawing and exploded drawing. This type of visual depicts an item two ways, in its assembled state and in a state with all of its parts in mostly the same place as when…
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