Please review the “How To Install EMG Pickups” novice or advance instructions and complete the survey below. After completion of the survey, please contact me via email at gscameho@purdue.edu with the attached survey filled out.
The set of intructions are different by the amount of steps to complete the task, less images to go off, and less informative needed to complete each task. The expert would know the location of where to connect the wire to the correct spots on the guitar devices. In addition I took out the soldering icon that indicated to the novice user when to use the soldering tool. I had created an inventory "check list" to show what parts where needed for the novice users. I used common guitar jargon terms such as "pots" and "jack" instead of their full device terms.
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I'll go through this with my little brother, he's pretty good at the guitar...
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Installing EMG Pickups
Please review the “How To Install EMG Pickups” novice or advance instructions and complete the survey below. After completion of the survey, please contact me via email at gscameho@purdue.edu with the attached survey filled out.
1. Do you have any experience installing pickups?
Nope
2. Have you ever used a soldering tool?
Nope
3. As you were going through the instructions, did you find the steps easy to follow? If not, why?
The steps were very easy to follow, I liked the emphasis on the graphics (which look great btw). Bolding key words in the text fields is a good way to do it too.
4. Is there enough information to complete each task? If not, which steps need revision?
More is less, and the graphics do a nice job here, but I would add something on the last slide that says something like “Final Construction: This is what it should look like”.
5. Were you able to easily locate the safety information panel? If not, explain?
Yep
6. Can you identify which steps require a soldering tool? If not, explain?
Yes, but you may want to add something to the cover page that has all of the info on soldering like a copy of that graphic with an explaination that says “These steps require the use of a soldering tool” or something.
7. Did you experience problems with the size, placement or font of text? If so, explain?
The text that was there was fine.
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The biggest thing is that the slides don’t really flow very well. The blue gradient background makes the whole thing rather homogeneous. I would try to find some way to distinguish the different steps. Using an outside boarder sometimes help hold everything together-so to speak. The numbers were not that noticeable either. Also, the format of the document: I can imagine this being on the back of the box of something or as a sort of card insert inside the package. Those are usually (the ones that I’m thinking of anyway) in landscape format or at least more horizontal as opposed to portrait. Just a thought.
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Installing EMG Pickups
Please review the “How To Install EMG Pickups” novice or advance instructions and complete the survey below. After completion of the survey, please contact me via email at gscameho@purdue.edu with the attached survey filled out.
1. Do you have any experience installing pickups?
No I have never installed pickups but have witnessed a person do it.
2. Have you ever used a soldering tool?
Yes I have soldered before.
3. As you were going through the instructions, did you find the steps easy to follow? If not, why?
I thought that the soldering instructions were great and had useful hints. Your instructions on how to put everything together were very easy to follow with the numbers and the separations.
4. Is there enough information to complete each task? If not, which steps need revision?
I think that there is enough information to complete the task. I think the final picture is great to reference too.
5. Were you able to easily locate the safety information panel? If not, explain?
Yes it was easy to find.
6. Can you identify which steps require a soldering tool? If not, explain?
I think that it is pretty evident but maybe a little more information could be added.
7. Did you experience problems with the size, placement or font of text? If so, explain?
I thought that the instruction manual was great and everything associated with the text was perfect.
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I think in your novice instructions there is a number missing but it might be my computer.