Smart image communication for technical documentation: Developing instructions without text
Do it like IKEA! Is it possible to switch from text to image? Is it worth it for your purposes? In the seminar, we will look at the practical applicability using checkpoints and prepared concepts. You will be shown basic concepts in application examples and learn about the process as a whole, right up until the picture guide is ready for print.
Photos, graphics, pictograms, animations and videos – a seminar with many practical examples. The basic seminar gives participants a comprehensive introduction to this fast-growing area of technical documentation.
People working in technical documentation will get answers to the following key questions:
- What kind of pictures and moving pictures are available?
- When does it make sense to use pictures and moving pictures?
- What methods and media can be used for picture guides?
- How can I prepare images for digitisation and best support users?
Topics
- Image communication: What images can and cannot do
- Images in historical and intercultural communication
- Images in manuals: Advantages, disadvantages and limitations of images as a replacement for text
- Decision help: Photos / graphics / pictograms / animations / videos
- Core functions of images, image statements and attention control
- Image concept: Single image, image sequence, page and instruction design
- Picture guide concepts and practical examples
- Digital user support: Images as topics, moving picture concepts
- Usability test
- Process: The development of a picture guide
Technical writers, illustrators, graphic designers who want to replace text in instructions with the aid of images (graphics, photos, videos, animations).
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Please register at least two weeks before the specified date to ensure everything goes smoothly. If you miss this deadline, registration may be possible upon request in exceptional cases.
