assembly guide

How-to build document

An assembly guide is a document or booklet with instructions for putting something together, typically included with furniture, appliances, or equipment that arrives unassembled: The assembly guide showed which screws went where.

Assembly guides range from clear step-by-step diagrams to notoriously confusing sheets that leave buyers frustrated.

Also called assembly instructions or assembly manual.

Related

easy to follow · diagrams · screws · parts · spare parts · toolkit · IKEA · do it yourself · arrows · tabs · bolts · pieces · patience · frustration · Allen · wrench · tool kit · numbered

Opposites
process stage

assembly guidefinished product

Completed manufactured good

final product · end result

instructional direction

assembly guideintuitive design

Interface requiring no instruction

guesswork · trial and error

Family

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Top 500,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G