1. Photographic icons are like all-capitalized text; the differences between icons aren’t sharp and easy to distinguish, so we get lost in the complexity.
类似照片一样的图标就像一篇文章中全部使用大写字母,图标之间的差异不明显,容易混淆,其错综复杂会让我们迷失。

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2. Distinguish important text items in lists with graphic icons.
用图标来区分重要的文本项。

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3. Texture is seldom useful for conveying differences or calling attention, since it requires a lot of attention to distinguish.
纹理很少被用来表达不同或者引起注意,因为分辨纹理需要很强的注意力。

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4. Our point is not to complain about the intricacies of driving, but rather to distinguish between two types of actions we take to accomplish our daily tasks.
我们的意思不是抱怨开车复杂,而是要区分完成日常任务时需要采取的两种动作类型。

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5. If a grayscale conversion of your color palette is easily distinguishable, color-blind users should be able to distinguish the color version.
如果你的调色板灰度变化容易区分,那么色盲用户就可以能够区分颜色方案。

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6. After we have visually identified the type of object we are interested in, we can read the text to distinguish which particular object we are looking at.
在我们视觉上辨识出来感兴趣的物体类别,再进一步阅读相关的文字来将分辨出这个特定的物体是什么。

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7. For example, the use of dimensionality to give the feel of a manual affordance is perhaps the most effective way to distinguish controls from data or background elements (see Chapter 13 for more about affordance).
例如,可以运用尺寸的大小来给人一种手工启示的感觉(参见第13章),可以把控件与数据或者背景元素区分开来,这就是一种不错的方法。

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8. Next use hue, saturation, value, size, and position to distinguish levels of hierarchy.
之后我们使用颜色、饱和度、值、尺寸和位置来区分层次结构中的每个层次。

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9. It’s usually a good idea to distinguish different logical sets of controls or data by grouping them by using visual properties such as color and dimensional rendering.
一般来说,通过分组方式我们可以将不同逻辑的控制或者数据集区别开来。 我们通常按照视觉属性来分组,比如颜色和形状。

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10. Visually distinguish elements that behave differently.
在视觉上区分不同行为的元素。

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