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Technical communication document
A user guide, user manual, owner's manual or instruction manual is intended to assist users in using a particular product, service or application. It is usually written by a technician, product developer, or a company's customer service staff. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: User guideA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: EAACI Molecular Allergology User's Guide 2.0Influential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Universal DesignThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: User-guided 3D active contour segmentation of anatomical structures: Significantly improved efficiency and reliabilityCited 8,537 times
- Go sideways: Technical writingA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Quickstart guideA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A manual intended to assist in the use of a particular system.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
User-guided 3D active contour segmentation of anatomical structures: Significantly improved efficiency and reliability
User's guide to correlation coefficients
User’s guide to viscosity solutions of second order partial differential equations
Translation, adaptation and validation of instruments or scales for use in cross‐cultural health care research: a clear and user‐friendly guideline
🆕 Influential since 2022
EAACI Molecular Allergology User's Guide 2.0
The Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) User Guide: a five-step guide for conducting implementation research using the framework
RAFT with Light: A User Guide to Using Thiocarbonylthio Compounds in Photopolymerizations
Paleobiology Database User Guide Version 1.0
Modal analysis of electromagnetic resonators: User guide for the MAN program
📚 Books worth reading
Universal DesignSelwyn Goldsmith · 2000
The digital rights movementHector Postigo · 2012
Designing interfacesJenifer Tidwell · 2005
Designing mobile interfacesSteven Hoober · 2011- 📕UtopiaNicole Gervais · 1988
The social media marketing bookDan Zarrella · 2009
MCSE--NT Server 4Matthew Strebe, Charles Perkins · 1997- 📕Human Rights in the Age of PlatformsAnja Bechmann, Mikkel Flyverbom · 2019
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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