My Toy Instructions
A few weeks back I was tasked to write a set of instructions for constructing a toy that I designed. The instructions had to be precise enough to allow the reader to be able to build my toy, but also concise enough for him/her to be able to build it within a 30 minute period. Nonetheless, I was able to complete the task.
For my instructions I created a toy robot, that I named “Destroyer Robot”, out of Lego pieces. Due to the time constraint I consolidated the instructions to building the robot quite a bit. First off, instead of building the robot from each individual Lego piece I had some pre-made parts that were used in the building process. There were some parts that were single Lego pieces, but parts were pre-built parts.
To accomplish the task I started by simply building whatever I could think up on the spot, and the end result was the robot. Then after that I worked on figuring out how to take it apart into certain parts such that it would not take too long to rebuild. This process I felt didn’t take too long and was a fairly relaxed process, so I would say this process went quite well. After that, writing the manual to be supplied to the user didn’t take all too long either. All in all I felt like the project as a whole went fairly well, nothing took too long or too much difficult thinking.
If I were to rework this project and improve on the instructions that I created. I think the areas that I would have liked to improve on are the instructions. More specifically, I would like to make the pictures that accompanied the written instructions to be even more clear. In addition to adjusting lighting, I would like to change them such that they had arrows or lines to indicate how one piece would be set on the other. However, due to lack of interest and time to do those things at the time I chose to abandon those additions.
Overall I felt that the project went well, it was interesting and quite enjoying to create my robot as well as write instructions to building it. Though, I wouldn’t consider the instructions perfect to my definition of the word, it definitely isn’t something I would regard as a disappointment. I thought the task instructions as a whole was also very precise and concise at conveying to us the expectations and procedure to go about accomplish the task.