- #DA LITE FAST FOLD HINGE REPAIR INSTRUCTIONS HOW TO#
- #DA LITE FAST FOLD HINGE REPAIR INSTRUCTIONS PDF#
- #DA LITE FAST FOLD HINGE REPAIR INSTRUCTIONS MANUAL#
Have you ever played Pictionary? Who’s the best at it? It’s usually not the most talented illustrator it’s the person who can communicate the concept the most quickly and efficiently. Here’s the thing: you don’t have to be an artist to communicate visually! Well, the next time you want to communicate something, consider drawing it.Īnd I know, you’re probably thinking, “But Melissa, I can’t draw!” What does this have to do with you and your life and work?
#DA LITE FAST FOLD HINGE REPAIR INSTRUCTIONS MANUAL#
I share this, because visual literacy is something that is given too little thought by too many in today’s world (and was clearly given too little thought by the folks putting together the user manual at Da-Lite – ironic, since as a manufacturer of projection surfaces, screens and accessories, Da-Lite is in the business of visuals!) Something this simple printed on the worse-than-useless instruction manual would have saved me a ton of time and a massive headache on Sunday. I drew a simple sketch in about two minutes to show the steps involved in folding up the easel. But a simple picture on the instruction manual would have made it so clear what I needed to do. How could this waste of time been prevented? I’ll tell you how: simple pictures.Ĭonsistent terminology would have helped, too. Something which should have taken 90 seconds had taken about thirty minutes. That image wasn’t very good, but it was enough for me to finally figure out what I needed to do to fold up the darn thing. Only after a lot more digging did I find this Parts List - completely separate from the instruction manual, mind you - which shows an arrow pointing to the “leg release.” Not the “hinge release,” which is what the instruction manual refers to, but the “leg release.” I run downstairs, looking wildly for the hinge release to push in, but again, I feel like an idiot. Only to be disappointed when this is the entirety of its instructions:
#DA LITE FAST FOLD HINGE REPAIR INSTRUCTIONS PDF#
I find a link to a PDF instruction manual! I’m getting hot, and my chest is growing tight with tension. I can feel my travel time to San Francisco ticking away as I search the interwebs. So finally I booted up my Mac and turned to Google.īut it turns out that finding a Da-Lite D305 easel user manual is not not so easy! I’d already spent at least ten minutes trying to figure it out on my own - I mean, how hard could it be, right? I’m an intelligent person.
#DA LITE FAST FOLD HINGE REPAIR INSTRUCTIONS HOW TO#
I was supposed to be on my way to San Francisco, for Creative Sunday Lab - a half-day creativity retreat hosted by Jenni Heffernan Brown of The Type A Creative, sort of like the day-camp version of my Create & Incubate Retreat, where creatives could gather in a beautiful office space to write, or draw, or make music, or do whatever kind of creating they wanted, in the company of others for a few hours.īut I’d recently taken delivery of a brand-new (to me - actually, a used) Da-Lite D305 flip chart easel, and because it was used it didn’t come with a user manual, and I couldn’t for the life of me figure out how to fold the darn thing up! Subscribe via Apple Podcasts | Subscribe via Stitcher