Believe it or not, this has been one of my more interesting projects with Herman Miller. The original instructions take over 12 pages of paper for all 4 products. They also weren’t the easiest to understand, either verablly or visually.

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Participants:

Nathan Shedroff: Creative Direction, Design, Production

The new instructions use simple shading and consistent views to step people through the instructions in one sheet for each product (2 sides in the case of one product). The instructions include a lot of new information, such as assembly time and cleaning instructions. The new files are PDFs that are posted on the website as well as coming in the boxes with the furniture.

The instructions before:

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A PDF of the final instructions…