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iPad 上的文本编辑应该怎么做
How text editing on the iPad should be
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这篇帖子介绍一个 iPad 文本编辑交互原型（在虚拟键盘上滑动来移动光标），而高赞评论把它变成了一堂关于“如何写有建设性的批评”的示范课：先立评价标准，再承认优点，最后给出可执行的替代方案。写作者可以从中学习如何让批评有据、有理、有出路，而不只是否定。
可以直接用的写作要点
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先把评价维度摆出来再下判断（效率、直觉性、一致性、隐喻），批评才有据可依，而不是凭感觉说“不好”。
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先肯定对方优化了什么，再指出它牺牲了什么，“很巧妙，但是……”的句式让批评更容易被接受。
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批评之后要给替代方案，最好用“现在要五步”与“为什么不能这样”的具体对照，让建议可落地。
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论证主张被采纳时用先例支撑，比如引用通知功能靠越狱应用走红的例子，把观点从情绪变成可复制的路径。
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好设计要在效率、直觉、一致性、隐喻之间取得平衡；只优化效率的界面会变得不可发现，也会破坏直接操作感。
这很巧妙，但永远不会实现。这个原型忽略了 iPad 上好设计所必需的诸多约束之间微妙的交叉点。大致有这几个要优化的维度：效率（用户多快能完成手头任务）、直觉性（不看说明就能上手的可能性）、一致性（与同一界面中其他模式有多相似）、隐喻（在多大程度上像真实世界的物体、能借用用户已有的理解）。这个原型显然在优化效率，而且做得很好，但代价非常非常大：它是一个无法被发现的界面，彻底破坏了 iPad 的直接操作幻觉，让虚拟按键不再是隐喻意义上的按钮（因为你可以拖着手指划过它们产生效果），手势用法也不一致——你实际上是在像用鼠标一样远程控制光标。苹果了不起的地方，就在于能在这些因素之间取得平衡。
gfodor查看英文原文
It's neat, but will never happen. The prototype misses the subtle intersection of all the constraints necessary for good design on the iPad. At a high level, here are a few that you want to optimize for: - Efficiency: how fast can the user perform the task at hand? - Intuitivity: how likely is it the user will understand how to use it without direct instruction? (based upon trial and error, previous experience, etc.) - Consistency: how much is it like other patterns in the same UI/environment? - Metaphor: how much does it 'feel' like other real-world objects and leverages how the user understands them already? These are of course a sample of high level overlapping themes. This particular prototype is obviously optimizing for efficiency. It does so very well, but at a very, very deep cost to the others. It is an undiscoverable interface. It utterly destroys the direct manipulation illusion of the iPad. It causes the virtual keys to no longer be metaphorical buttons since you can drag across them for an effect. It is inconsistent with other use of gestures, particularly since you are controlling a cursor remotely much like you would with a mouse (likely a fire-able proposition at Apple!) The thing that makes Apple's work so amazing is the balance they manage to strike between these things and so consistently get it right. For a power user, give me vim, Maya, Photoshop, and other tools that optimize for efficiency (much like this prototype does.) But when designing things that are meant to be universally available, a more subdued and balanced approach across these types of constraints is necessary.
与其推翻现有范式，不如在原有范式内提出更简洁的具体手势替代方案。
我佩服这份努力，但我不认为苹果会（也应该）采纳。iOS 是直接操作的界面，在键盘上滑动去控制屏幕另一处的光标，恰恰违背了这一点。更合理的是增加更快的直接操作手势，而不必推翻整个范式。比如现在选中一段文字要：长按调出放大镜→松手调出菜单→点“选择”→拖动一个端点→必要时调整另一个端点。为什么不能这样：长按调出放大镜→按住的同时用第二根手指拖出想要的选区？这才是苹果可能会接受的做法。
abalone查看英文原文
I admire the effort but I don't think Apple will (or should) go for it. iOS is a direct manipulation interface. Swiping over the keyboard to move the cursor around another part of the screen is really counter to that. What would make more sense is to add faster direct manipulation gestures. There's opportunity for that, without throwing out the whole paradigm. For example, today to select a range of text you: 1. Tap-and-hold to bring up the cursor magnifying glass 2. Let go to bring up the context menu 3. Tap "select" from the menu 4. Drag one of the endpoints to one end of the selection 5. Adjust the other endpoint if necessary But why not this? 1. Tap-and-hold to bring up the cursor magnifying glass 2. While holding, use a second finger to drag out the desired selection! Now that's something Apple might actually go for.
想让想法被采纳，先做出可用的东西并制造先例，比提功能请求更有效。
这很有意思，概念也很棒，但我不认为“功能请求／bug 报告”是最好的方式——苹果对反馈极不回应，哪怕你报的是真 bug。更好的做法是自己做出来，尽可能装到 Android 和越狱的苹果设备上，让它成为“必备”越狱应用。通知功能就是这么成功的。如果它能让人觉得 Android 平板比 iPad 更好打字，也会引起苹果注意。
fredley查看英文原文
This is very interesting, and a really great concept, but I don't think a feature request 'bug report' is the best way to go about this, Apple are extremely unresponsive to feedback, even when you're reporting legitimate bugs. A better thing to do would be to go out, make it, and get it on as many Android and jailbroken Apple devices as possible. Make it a 'must have' jailbreak app. It worked for notifications. If it's something that makes Android tablets easier to type on than the iPad that'll get their attention too.
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