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visual-docs-diagrams

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Design and review visual content for developer documentation, including screenshots, architecture diagrams, boxes-and-arrows diagrams, flowcharts, swimlanes, video decisions, accessibility, performance, annotations, and visual maintenance. Use when creating or auditing diagrams, screenshots, visual explanations, or media in technical docs.

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Visual Docs Diagrams

Use this skill to decide whether developer docs need visuals and to design or review those visuals for comprehension, accessibility, performance, and maintainability.

This skill is derived from Docs for Developers: An Engineer's Field Guide to Technical Writing, especially Chapter 6, "Adding visual content." The guidance is transformed and paraphrased; do not copy book prose into user outputs. Source: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4842-7217-6

Quick Start

  1. Load guidelines.md to choose the smallest useful reference set.
  2. Define what the visual must help the reader understand or do.
  3. Choose screenshot, diagram, flowchart, swimlane, or text-only based on the task.
  4. Use workflows/design-technical-visual.md for full visual design or review.
  5. Check accessibility, performance, placement, source files, and maintenance before finalizing.

Default Output

When designing or reviewing visual docs, return:

  1. Visual purpose - what the reader must understand faster or better.
  2. Recommended visual type - screenshot, boxes-and-arrows, flowchart, swimlane, video, or no visual.
  3. Design notes - scope, labels, annotations, contrast, placement, and format.
  4. Accessibility and performance checks - alt text, captions, transcripts, SVG/image size, responsiveness.
  5. Maintenance plan - source file, owner, update trigger, and review cadence.

Contents

NeedStart Here
Understand visual typesreferences/core/knowledge.md
Apply visual rulesreferences/core/knowledge.md
See visual decision examplesreferences/core/knowledge.md
Design or review a visualworkflows/design-technical-visual.md
Route by taskguidelines.md

Core Posture

  • Use visuals to supplement text, not replace critical instructions.
  • Prefer one idea or level of detail per visual.
  • Treat accessibility and maintenance as part of visual design, not post-production polish.
  • Avoid video unless the motion itself is necessary and maintenance is realistic.