User Manual Samples

Sample 5: User Manual

AUDIENCE AND PURPOSE: User manuals can be for many different types of users, and come in many formats from simple line by line instructions, in-depth technical descriptions with screenshots of workflow, custom training materials, scripts and series of video, to interactive web pages, and more. The audience could be end users that only interact with basic usage functions and front end, or technical handlers that need a highly detailed specification of how to design using a range of functions.

Release Highlight Document

Content Type: Document to explain high level details of new version features.

Created Using: Powerpoint

Release Highlight Video

Content Type: Version Release Promotion Video

Created Using: Audacity to record VO, Quicktime or OBS Studio to record screen capture, Adobe Premiere to edit video and VO

Five Pillars LARP Guide

Content Type: A packet describing one of the live action fantasy game's races (a passion project)

Created Using: Pages on Mac, then lived a life of conversion until we decided on Google Slides because the game manages other docs in Google Drive.