User-friendly point-of-use instructions for home use diagnostic tests

Description

This toolkit provides guidance for producing clear and user-friendly point-of-use instructions for testing kits. It is for:
- manufacturers and distributors of tests
- service providers who might want to brief designers and content specialists
- content specialists and designers who need information about producing instructional text

This guidance includes:
- information about what you should consider when producing user-friendly instructions, based on the findings of research and good practice
- examples of how the guidance has been applied by those who implement policy in diagnostic companies

The toolkit has been designed primarily to support instructions in a static/fixed page layout.

Resource Type:	Other
Creators:	Walker, Sue ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5942-1836, Bravo, Josefina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1013-8412 and Edwards, Al ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2369-989X
Contributors:	Needs, Sarah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3407-9637, Hart, Julie, Little, Gemma, Donmez, Sultan Ilyada, Fraser, Muggeridge and Barrat, Matha
Rights-holders:	University of Reading
Data Publisher:	University of Reading
Publication Year:	2022
Data last accessed:	31 October 2025
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.17864/1947.000419
Metadata Record URL:	https://researchdata.reading.ac.uk/id/eprint/419
Organisational units:	Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Arts and Communication Design > Typography & Graphic Communication Life Sciences > School of Chemistry, Food and Pharmacy > School of Pharmacy
Participating Organisations:	University of Reading, Roche Diagnostics, Innovation agency NorthWest Coast AHSN
Keywords:	user instructions, Covid test, information design, lateral flow test, usability, diagnostic test, point-of-care testing
Rights:	Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Data Availability:	OPEN
Additional details Additional details Project Name: Information Design for Diagnostics: Ensuring Confidence and Accuracy for Home Sampling and Home Testing Funders: Arts and Humanities Research Council (AH/V015001/1) University of Reading Resource Language: English Collection period: From July 2020 To July 2022 Depositing User: Mrs Josefina Bravo Date Deposited: 09 Nov 2022 10:29 Last Modified: 30 Oct 2025 05:30