Digital Guide Checklist for Findability

This guide provides a checklist for evaluating and updating digital guides to enhance their findability, followability, and scannability. It outlines several key considerations for creating effective guides, such as ensuring the title is phrased in a way that aligns with how users would ask questions. The document advises against overly broad scopes and encourages the inclusion of additional search terms. It emphasizes the importance of using headings and sub-headings to organize tasks and recommends grouping steps into sub-tasks rather than presenting long step-by-step lists. The guide also discusses the effective use of foldable sections, bolding, and styled paragraphs to improve clarity. It suggests using action-oriented text and numbered lists for instructions that require a specific order, as well as decision trees for variable procedures. Additionally, it highlights the need for a balanced approach to screenshots and annotations to aid user comprehension.