1. Good design has the feeling of a unified whole, in which all parts are in balance and harmony.
优秀的设计让人感觉是一个整体,各部分平衡和谐。

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2. The difference is that overviews help orient users within the content rather than within the application as a whole.
不同的是,总体视图帮助用户定位内容,而不是在整个应用中定位。

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3. Each character is valid by itself, yet the whole may not pass muster.
每个单词本身是有效的,但可能总体验证通不过。

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4. The user doesn’t have to remember or type words like Page Width or Whole Page because they are there to be chosen from the drop-down list.
用户无须记住或输入如页面宽度和整个页面这样的单词,因为它们可以在下拉列表中选择。

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5. Menu items and dialogs, when they are translated, need to be considered holistically. It is important to make sure that translated interfaces remain coherent as a whole.
在翻译菜单项和对话框时,需要全盘考虑,确保翻译的界面保持整体的一致性很重要。

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6. In the spreadsheet, a single-click will select exactly one whole cell.
在电子表格中,单击就是选择整个单元格。

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7. Eventually, the user stops to think, and the application will have time to scan the whole disk. The user won’t even notice.
终于用户停下来思考,而程序已经有了足够的时间扫描整个硬盘,用户甚至不会注意到。

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8. Figure 3-1: The demands that users place on digital products vary considerably with their experience. Statistics don’t tell the whole story, however.
然而统计数据并不能说明所有问题,正态分布曲线只不过是瞬间快照。

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9. Constructing a whole newspaper from a blank slate would be an unpleasant task for all but the closet journalists among us.
对于我们这些几乎不懂新闻的人来说,在白板的基础上创建一份完整的报纸不是一个令人愉快的任务。

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10. It is common to move back and forth between steps and to iterate the whole process several times until you have a solid design solution.
在各个步骤之间前后移动,甚至把整个过程反复几次,直到产生出坚实的设计方案,这样的情况很普遍。

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