The project was to create an informational guide that relied mainly on info graphics to explain and guide the viewer through what they were supposed to do. I wanted to create a memorable set of instructions to help teach people how to play Canasta. When I learned how to play, my only form of instructions were verbal from the people sitting around me. If Canasta didn’t have so many rules and instructions that would be fine, however it does so another teaching aid would be helpful. Canasta is a family game so it needs to be easy to understand for people of all ages. The problems with Canasta is that there are lots of rules, and they change depending on multiple variables, and in the beginning it can be hard to remember all of them. Research shows that many game manufactured instructions are just word based and they are usually very hard to understand and remember. With a more image and color based instruction design I can solve the important “standard” problem.
