交互设计之路
The inmates are running the asylum
Alan Cooper · 初版 1999 年
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为什么值得读
- 尖锐指出程序员对复杂性的耐受伤害了用户
- 阐明真正做到简单交互的难度与必要性
- 为面向大众的软件产品设计提供全新视角
试想一下，以一种令人恐惧的迅猛速度，你日常使用的所有东西都在被计算机技术所武装。想想你的手机、相机、汽车——所有的一切——正在被那些急于享受硅芯片带来的种种好处、却放弃了让产品易用之责任的人进行自动化和编程。The Inmates are Running the Asylum 指出，尽管表面上看起来并非如此，但商业高管根本不是掌控高科技产业的人。他们不经意间把主导权交给了程序员和工程师，从而导致了产品和流程
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> 糟糕的设计。说真的，简约真的非常非常难。比直接甩给用户一堆设置、开关和切换按钮难多了。我觉得这就是为什么会出现“疯子在管疯人院”（The Inmates are Running the Asylum）的核心原因。http://www.amazon.com/The-Inmates-Are-Running-Asylum/dp/0672... 我们程序员对复杂性的免疫力比普通人强得多。就像我之前在 Seattle Folklife 买长笛的时候一样……
> Poor design. Seriously. Simplicity is really really hard. Much harder than throwing a ton of settings, toggles, and switches at a user. I think this is the key reason why "The Inmates are Running the Asylum." http://www.amazon.com/The-Inmates-Are-Running-Asylum/dp/0672... We programmers are much more immune to complexity than the average person. It's like when I was buying a flute at Seattle Folklife.…
……这里记忆有点模糊，要是有不准确的地方还请包涵）。这怎么可能比直接按收音机上的预设按键更好用？在我看来，任何技术人员必读的一本书就是 Alan Cooper 的《The Inmates Are Running the Asylum》。它给了我一个审视计算的新视角。如果你做任何给人用的软件设计，都必须读读它。那本书一开篇就是“信息时代的谜题”……
…slightly hazy memory here, so pardon inexactness if there is one). How is that better than just whacking the button for the preset # on the radio? A must read-book for any techie, in my opinion, is "The Inmates Are Running the Asylum" by Alan Cooper. It gave me a new perspective on computing. If you do any kind of software design that is used by a human, you must read it. So that book starts out with "Riddles for the Information…
要深入探讨这个话题，去读读 Alan Cooper 的经典之作《The Inmates are Running the Asylum》http://www.amazon.com/Inmates-Are-Running-Asylum-Products/dp... Cooper 首先写了些我们都爱听的话：程序员实际上掌控着大多数高科技企业的命运。但紧接着他就……
For a more thorough treatment of this topic, read Alan Cooper's classic book _The Inmates are Running the Asylum_ http://www.amazon.com/Inmates-Are-Running-Asylum-Products/dp... Cooper first writes something we all like to hear: programmers actually control the fate of most high tech businesses. But then he makes…
我觉得把这个和 Alan Cooper 的《The Inmates are Running the Asylum》结合起来，对提升 UI 能力大有帮助。
This and The Inmates are Running the Asylum by Alan Cooper could go a long way to improving UI abilities, I think.
……一个人是怎么“写”软件的。在我烦死人地软磨硬泡了很久之后，有人给了我一本大概是60年代关于 COBOL 或 FORTRAN 的书。没什么大用。我借的最后一本书（Alan Cooper 写的关于 UX 设计的《The Inmates are Running the Asylum》，我觉得写得极好）被我掉进垃圾桶搞丢了。我被罚了104美元，联系他们的时候享受到了堪比 Comcast 的客服态度。直到我付了这笔离谱的费用……
…one "writes" software. After lots of probably very annoying begging, I was given a book on either COBOL or FORTRAN from the ~60s. It wasn't super helpful. The last book I borrowed (Alan Cooper's The Inmates are Running the Asylum on UX design, which I found compelling) was lost after I dropped it in the bin. I was fined $104, and upon contacting them was given customer service rivaling comcast's. Until I pay that ridiculous cost…
需求对我来说有点不明确，不过我还是抛出几本书供参考：Alan Cooper 的《The Inmates Are Running the Asylum》，论证了用户界面可以而且应该更容易理解。我觉得在这本书出版以来的这些年里，UI 领域总体上有了很大改善，但是……
The requirements seem a bit unclear to me, but I'll toss a couple of titles into the ring: The Inmates Are Running the Asylum (Alan Cooper) makes the case that user interfaces can and should be easier to understand. I think in the years since this book was written, there has been much improvement in the UI world overall, but…