Usability Test Project In technical writing, you need to learn...

Usability Test Project

In technical writing, you need to learn to analyze and design any document in terms of how it is usable, reader-friendly, and how it could be improved, so that it could be usable.

Content/Subject
Style and design are very crucial in technical communication. Style is not artificial flavoring added to a document to make the content more "interesting." It's an appropriate style and design that makes a technical document readable for the audience. Keeping audience always in the center, technical writing is designed.

A typical reader-friendly and usable technical document can be designed by using appropriate:
• Style
• Design
• Creating and using appropriate graphics
• Revising and editing for usability.
In this assignment, you will redesign the document on page no 366-367 of the book based on the principles of style, design, creating and using graphics, and revising and editing for usability. You will design the document in such a way that satisfies these principles, and thus make it more accessible, more attractive, and more interesting to its intended reader.

Purpose:
• How to make technical documents reader-friendly and usable.

Audience:
• This assignment should be directed at your scholarly peers, and you may assume that they have only a casual familiarity with instruction manual skills.

Constraints:
• Use simple and lucid language with correct grammar
• Style is yours
• Use appropriate design, and graphics

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Suggestions

1. Aesthetics/Design

a. Color: the part of me that likes color likes the color scheme you’ve chosen; the part of me concerned with the potential (subliminal) psychological impact of a color scheme with relatively incongruous colors like blue and orange is worried you/we could do better.

- Erring in the direction of simplicity is often wise – perhaps limit the color palette to black, a couple of blues at most, and judicious use of whitespace? [For the record, I like the color scheme – it just may...