Open Here : The Art of Instructional Design

Summary: Presents an entertaining array of the most ingenious, frustrating, beautiful & terrible visual solutions that designers & illustrators have invented to help us handle modern technology & everyday products. It shows us how to floss our teeth properly, where to insert the printer cartridge, which button to press to transfer a phone call, how to use chopsticks, how to open a milk carton & where to exit the plane in case... of emergency landing. Traces the history of visual instructions & considers how our dependence upon them increases. Presents a variety of clever concepts & solutions designers have used to show us how to do what we need to do. Also, includes an overview of the basic elements of visual instructions: drawings, cartoons & symbols. Spectacular! [read more]