Instructions Analysis

The instruction analysis is what will be produce from all the planning you had with the instruction selection memo.  First, there needs to be a clear goal on what you expect from your instructions.  This should have been decided from the previous memo or it could have been changed since then to make the overall assignment easier.  You will have to do some usability testing with the set of instructions you chose.  You will need at least two testers for the assignment.  You can use the usability testing worksheet that has been provided to write down your result.  It is a worksheet that has already been formatted for you.  It also has questions already on there that will help you write about the results in the memo.

My instruction analysis originally had a goal of just to see if the testers can make a kite.  After getting some advice from the instruction selection memo, it was changed.  I decided that my goal was based on the difficulty level of the instructions.  I simply tested how hard it was to follow the instructions.  I had a father and son for one of my testers.  I also had a mom and daughter as my other testers.  I gave them the set of instructions and stepped back and let them read it themselves.  I study how hard it was for them to read the directions to complete the task correctly and efficiently.  After all these results were collected, I put it all into my instruction analysis.

My instruction analysis was set up like a lot of my other memos. It is about the overall instructions and process that was taken throughout this assignment.  It had to be address to the professor as my audience.  I came up with different categories to write about in my analysis.  The analysis was about the set of instructions, the purpose, and the audience.  I then wrote about my results on how difficult it was or not for my two set of testers.  I discussed the interactions between the child and parent when the read the directions.  I also wrote about how long it took them to make the kite based on the instructions given to them.  The result was that the instructions did not have a high difficulty level.  Both set of testers finished making the kite pretty easily. 

At the end the analysis, I felt like this was not as difficult as I originally assumed it would be.  I just had to follow the instructions given to me.  At this time, I still was not getting as much editing help as I needed.  Here’s my reminder again.  Have a good editing strategy.  You may not be able just to rely on yourself.

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Instructions Analysis