We want to upload a few existing user manuals to doQer, for products that are already on the market, so that we can begin showcasing the application’s capabilities.
It seemed a good idea to figure out which manuals people use most, so I did a quick Google search for a list of the most popular manuals. Unfortunately, such a list doesn’t seem to exist online (I guess not everyone is as obsessed with user manuals as we are here a doQer!).
A different approach was required. It seems to make sense to assume that the popular manuals would more or less correlate to top selling consumer electronic products, so I followed that path by looking at the most sold products from online shops and websites like Amazon.com, Shopper.com, and PriceGrabber.com. Much easier to find!
The top products were:
- Apple iPod Touch
- Apple iPod Nano
- Asus Eee PC 1000HE
- Canon PowerShot SD880 IS
- Canon PowerShot SD890 IS
- Garmin Nuvi 265WT
- Nikon D90 Black
- Samsung BD-P3600
- Samsung LN52A650
Obviously we need to apply a bit of common sense as well to figure out which user manuals are going to be in demand from this product list - for example, perhaps an iPod Touch user interface is fairly self-explanatory, whereas maybe a Canon Powershot requires a bit more explanation. For that reason, we doing a bit of our filtering ourselves too to decide which manuals to feature first.
We’ve now chosen a couple of manuals to start a proof of concept trial and we’ll soon welcome to the first manuals in the doQer collection!
Tags: documentation, doqer, help files, instructions, technical writing, user guide, user manual, writing