1. In Chapter 24, we discussed the bulletin dialog, commonly issued by applications when they have problems or confront decisions they don’t feel capable of making, or really any time they have something to notify users about.
在第24章中我们讨论了公告对话框,它是在出现问题或面临自己无法做出的决定时,由程序单方面发起的对话框。

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2. The task of data entry is becoming less a mass-production job and more of a productivity job: a job performed by intelligent, capable professionals and, with the popularization of e-commerce, directly by customers.
数据输入的任务已经不是大规模生产的工作,正在成为高生产率的工作,即一项由有才能并具有专业能力的人员完成的工作。 随着电子商务的到来,数据输入直接由客户来操作。

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3. Fudgeability can be difficult to build into a computer system because it demands a considerably more capable interface.
在计算机系统中建立规避机制很困难,因为它需要一个能力更强大的界面。

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4. One of the ways in which products are least capable in this regard is when the user is required to enter data.
在这方面,软件功能最弱的地方之一是必须要求使用者来输入数据。

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5. Yet, we are all capable of rapidly memorizing and using such idioms: We do so almost without realizing it.
是的,我们都可以迅速地记住和使用这些习惯用语,我们这样做时几乎都是下意识的。

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6. Long before children are capable of using and understanding verbal language, they possess the ability to differentiate between objects with contrasting visual treatments.
儿童在学会说话和理解口头语言的很长时间之前,就掌握了通过比较视觉方面的不同来辨识物体的能力。

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7. Ultimately, we believe that properly conducted open-ended interviews are quite capable of exploring these aspects of the user’s mental model.
最后要说明的是,我们相信通过合理的开放式访谈完全能够了解用户心理模型的上述方面。

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8. When you think about it, it’s pretty obvious that for a person to perceive an interactive product as considerate and smart, that product must have some knowledge about the person and be capable of learning from their behavior.
很容易考虑这个问题,当人们感觉某个交互产品是体贴和聪明的,这个产品必须具有关于这个人的知识并从其行为学习的能力。

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9. Thanks to science fiction writers and futurists, there is some confusion about what it means for an interactive product to be smart. Some naive observers think that smart software is actually capable of behaving intelligently.
由于科幻小说家和未来主义者对交互产品的聪明是什么含意的理解有一些含糊,一些幼稚的观察者认为聪明的软件事实上能够表现的有智能。

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10. In general, we’ve found this approach to be acceptable for a technical audience that is capable of imagining how a few drawings might represent a product interface.
一般来说,我们发现这种方法对于技术型的用户比较适用,他们有能力从几幅草图中想像出产品的大概界面。

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