A package is usually noticed just before its contents take centre stage. Once empty, it can still reveal a designed sequence: where a hand was meant to begin, which flap opened first, and how the contents were held in place.
Use clean, ordinary packaging from something you already own. Do not dismantle historical packaging or cut a container whose former contents are uncertain. Photograph the exterior and opened interior before flattening it, if you intend to recycle it.
Read the instructions as actions
Locate a pull tab, opening arrow, or printed instruction. Compare it with the route you actually used. In a notebook, separate the package’s direction from your experience: “The arrow points to the short edge; I first tried the long flap.” One experience is not evidence that all users find the design confusing.
Look inside next. A folded support may keep an item away from the outer wall or separate several parts. Describe the arrangement you can see without making an untested claim about impact protection.
An especially useful record is a short sequence of three states: closed, first opening, and contents removed. Include dimensions only if measured, and keep the object’s name and packaging date where known.
The empty package then becomes evidence of an interaction, rather than merely a decorated surface. It lets a future reader follow the order of actions that a flat photograph of the front would miss.