Even written in plain English, manuals, assembly instructions, and directions are too darn verbal. We live in a visual world. To convey directions intuitively (not to mention globally), we need to use visual language. We need to speak in pictures. This 12-page article from issue 49 of Before&After Magazine encourages you to use images—not words!—when you have something to demonstrate or explain.
Key to easy production is to draw from snapshots. Drawing allows you to arrange and rearrange the action quickly with no regard for details. Once a snapshot is made, you are immediately free to pick out important parts, change positions, exaggerate key actions and so forth to make the message clear.
© John McWade/Before&After Magazine, courtesy of Gaye Anne McWade.
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