IKEA instructions are clear, concise, and complete. A better comparison would be Chinese flatpack trash from Wayfair with poorly photocopied diagrams, inscrutable Engrish, and missing steps.
Very precise. I do technical drawings for fabricators and Ikea is the sort of gold standard, for exploded assemblies views anyhow. What I was getting at was another layer of insufferability which is the people that complain about instructions which can’t be any more clear, just because they are bellyachers.
I use IKEA directions as a barometer for basic problem solving skills. They’re designed to use universal symbols and no wording so anyone can follow them. If you can’t follow those directions, well… It’s not the instructions that are the problem.
IKEA instructions are clear, concise, and complete. A better comparison would be Chinese flatpack trash from Wayfair with poorly photocopied diagrams, inscrutable Engrish, and missing steps.
Very precise. I do technical drawings for fabricators and Ikea is the sort of gold standard, for exploded assemblies views anyhow. What I was getting at was another layer of insufferability which is the people that complain about instructions which can’t be any more clear, just because they are bellyachers.
I use IKEA directions as a barometer for basic problem solving skills. They’re designed to use universal symbols and no wording so anyone can follow them. If you can’t follow those directions, well… It’s not the instructions that are the problem.
Now I want to interview candidates with IKEA products.
I learned to cherish IKEA instructions after my first and last experience with those.
Based off my limited experience, Wayfair furniture is intentionally designed to be as frustrating as possible to assemble.