Use Case
3D UX/UI mockups that scroll inside a laptop and a phone
Full page screenshots scroll inside a 3D laptop, app screens tap on a 3D phone, hotspots link out. One URL that opens in any browser, nothing to install.
3 min
Order the manual by ticket volume, put video on the steps that fail in text, and print a QR code on the product so every unit reaches the current revision.
A manual gets opened at exactly one moment: something has gone wrong and the customer is already annoyed. That is a bad time to ask anyone to find a PDF, unfold a paper sheet, or work out which revision they own. Most of what support answers that day is the same four questions, and the answers are already written down on page 14.
Your manual is ordered the way the product was built: components, then specifications, then use. Customers arrive in the order things break. Count the tickets before you restructure a single page.
Assembly, calibration and anything needing a specific amount of force are the steps prose cannot carry. Put a hotspot on the illustration itself, at the point where the hands go, and set it to open the URL of a fifteen to thirty second clip. The marker can be a colored dot or invisible, so it sits on the drawing without covering the part you are pointing at. A hotspot can also open a modal or jump to another page (hotspot docs), which is how a troubleshooting symptom sends someone to the right step instead of describing it again.
Packaging is in the bin ten minutes after the box is opened. The manual is needed in month eight. Download the QR code from the share tab (sharing docs) and print it on the product, inside a battery cover or on the base, pointing at the project URL. Replace the pages behind that URL and every unit ever shipped now leads to the current revision. Print cannot do that.
Keep the revision date on the cover and publish superseded versions as their own projects. Support has to be able to see what a specific customer was actually told.
Test the code at its final printed size, on the real surface. A code that scans fine from a laptop screen can fail once it is shrunk onto a curved matte base.
A single file carrying four languages makes every reader flip past three they cannot read. One project per language, each at its own URL, with a language hotspot on the cover, gets them there in one tap and lets you correct a translation without re-exporting the rest. The ceiling is real: on i3Dify the free plan allows 3 projects and 50 MB, and every free page carries the watermark. Pro is 3 dollars a month and removes the branding.
If your product carries regulated safety information, check whether your market requires it on paper, in a set format, or in specific languages. Many do. The digital manual is the layer on top of that, not a way out of it.
The second limit is accessibility. Page content is rendered as images, so a screen reader gets nothing from it. Where accessibility is a legal requirement, publish an HTML version alongside and link the two to each other.
On a manual the analytics read backwards. The heatmaps tab (analytics docs) reports how many times each page was opened and how long it held the reader, and the long numbers are the bad ones. Rewrite those pages first. The analytics screen is a Pro feature: on free you get view counts only.
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So customers reach the current version from a QR code on the product itself, and so you can hang video off the steps that generate tickets. It also lets you update documentation for units already shipped, which print cannot do.
On the product, not just the packaging. Packaging is discarded within minutes and the manual is needed months later. Inside a battery cover or on the base works well, as long as the code still scans at its final printed size.
Yes. Replace the pages in the project and every QR code already printed leads to the current revision. Keep a revision date on the cover and publish superseded versions as their own projects so support knows what a given customer was told.
One project per language at its own URL, with a language hotspot on each cover. Customers reach their language in a single tap and you can correct one translation without re-exporting all of them. Note the free plan allows 3 projects in total.
Not always. Some markets require regulated safety documentation on paper or in specific formats and languages. Treat the digital manual as a supplement and check your own requirements before dropping the printed sheet.
No. Page content is rendered as images, so assistive technology cannot read it. If accessibility is a legal requirement in your market, publish an accessible HTML version alongside the flipbook and link them to each other.
Full page screenshots scroll inside a 3D laptop, app screens tap on a 3D phone, hotspots link out. One URL that opens in any browser, nothing to install.
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