**5. Recommendations**

To conclude the findings from this research, the authors suggest a design process for instruc‐ tion planners (Figure 9).

**Figure 9.** A recommended design process.

**Table 9.** The analysis of confusions and problems in the diagnose test for the multimedia instructions.

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This recommended process can be used in combination with the checklist provided by ISO/IEC GUIDE 37 (1995) and the checklist can be updated when the ISO guide is refreshed. It is simple, visual and easy to follow. It should help instruction designers especially those new to planning product instructions. It can also contribute to the development of instruction planning tools.

**Chapter 6**

**Measuring Design Simplicity**

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service or function that we intend to draw or design.

cultural ideas; generation of new behaviors with growing complexity.

and products while allowing its interaction in a simpler way.

whether it may be in Design, whether it may be in Engineering.

From John Maeda (2006) it's clearly known that the study of what is Simplicity is central to Design and Engineering. This chapter deals with this, introducing a method to measure

Design and Engineering are today less an act of drawing or designing something but rather the act of designing a program that in itself conceives a diversity of solutions pertaining to the

This drawing and designing activity may thus be defined by the creation of new materials; genetic manipulation; software and interface conception; formulation of new forms of languages, mostly those of visualization nature; conception (design) of social, political and

By opposition and in consequence of complexity and also from the intervention of Design and Engineering we all can access better life quality, we can access better technological artifacts

Hence this chapter aims the essence of "simplicity" and how it shows up in several existences,

The first time ever someone described how the better organization and functionality of systems can be linked to Simplicity was, in 1870, Claude Bernard (Gene, 2007). However Simplicity, as commonly understood, is not an easy thing to describe, much less to comprehend. What is taken as Simplicity is an undetermined number of concepts to explain what supposedly Simplicity is. The result is a great dispersion that cannot afford reasoning. Some have been able to reduce the given conditions for the existence of Simplicity to ten concepts designated as laws (Maeda, 2006). However we cannot consider it as a definition to describe "simplicity" because such multiplicity is just and only descriptive. If we ought to have a classic image of

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**1. Introduction**

Simplicity.

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