Sony Corporation is a world leader in the design
and manufacture of television and other home entertainment systems.
Many of their products are manufactured in the United States and
marketed worldwide, requiring translation of their User Guides
into both European and Asian languages.
User Guides
We wrote and developed several series of User
Guides for Sony televisions. For one series, a relatively low-cost
model, we were able to convert a 32 page booklet into an innovative
12 panel foldout. Costs were reduced by over 80%, and usability
was improved over the previous version. This series was translated
into 6 European languages - and our translation was singled out
as "the best they had ever had", requiring almost no corrections
after in-country review.
We developed user guides for other manuals in
Sony's line over the course of this two-year project, translating
them into Hungol (Korea), Mandarin, and other Asian and European
languages.