Designed for Use, 2nd Edition

Illustrate Your Points

Maintaining images and screenshots can be a lot of work. With each product update, you have to go through all of the pictures and fix the ones that are out-of-date. It’s tempting to just avoid pictures altogether. But pictures can make your text more understandable and readable.

Pictures help illustrate points. A good screenshot can replace several paragraphs of text and may be easier to understand. Depending on your audience, even simple explanations can benefit from an illustration.

The preceding text is fairly clear, but an image makes it even more obvious.

Images can also give your text a more inviting look. Facing a ...