How Target User Analysis Helps You Derive the Right Information Structure in User Manuals?

When you create training material or an e-learning course, you do a target audience analysis. You basically think from a learner’s perspective while  designing a training.  You do this so that the learning process is effective.
Now when it comes to creating help manuals or user manuals for applications, do you apply the same principle?
 I have [...]

Tips to design a User Manual (Part II)

The objective of a User Manual is to extend immediate help (with respect to using a product) to the target audience. You can call a User Manual highly effective when it helps you:

Gather information in one reading
Use the product successfully

There are so many factors that contribute to an effective User Manual. Some of them are [...]

Tips to design a User Manual (Part 1)

You need to get started with the User Manual only when:

You know enough about the product/application you are going to write upon
You know your target audience and their requirements
Have a workaround knowledge of a few authoring tools

Writing a User Manual is like writing a book. Therefore most people get confused as to:

How to get started
How [...]