I recently bought a cool thing off Amazon. It’s an adapter for iPhone, making it easy to transfer photos from your big bulky camera to your phone. The adapter itself is very easy to use: simply insert your SD card and plug the adapter into your lightning port:

我最近在亞馬遜附近買了一件很酷的東西。 它是iPhone的適配器，可以輕松地將大尺寸相機中的照片傳輸到手機中。 適配器本身非常易于使用：只需插入SD卡，然后將適配器插入閃電端口即可：

However, what’s less easy to use is the iOS interface that follows. In fact, it has some really dangerous buttons.

但是，不太容易使用的是后面的iOS界面。 實際上，它有一些非常危險的按鈕。

Let’s have a look.

我們來看一下。

問題1：什么都沒發生。 (Problem #1: Nothing happens.)

When a user plugs in hardware to a PC or phone, the operating system should figure out whether the user wants to do something with this newly connected hardware or not.

當硬件到PC或電話的用戶插頭，操作系統應該弄清楚用戶是否愿意做一些與這個新連接的硬件或沒有。

Let’s say you plug in a pair of headphones. Chances are, you just want audio sent through the headphones, that’s about it. You don’t need the OS asking you what you want to do.

假設您插入了耳機。 很有可能，您只想通過耳機發送音頻即可。 您不需要操作系統詢問您要做什么。

However, if you plug in a hard drive, a USB stick or, say, a SD card, I’d say the likelihood of you wanting to do something with that media is high.

但是，如果您插入硬盤驅動器，USB記憶棒或SD卡，我想說您想對該媒體做某事的可能性很高。

Unfortunately, when I plug in my SD card adapter (with an SD card in it) to my iPhone, nothing happens.

不幸的是，當我將SD卡適配器(帶有SD卡)插入iPhone時，什么也沒發生。

Hey iOS, I’d like to do something with the photos on the SD card. Don’t act like I don’t. As un-sexy as Microsoft Windows is (don’t worry, I’m a Windows guy) their designers really understand the intent of the user when he or she plugs in media:

嗨，iOS，我想對SD卡上的照片做些什么 。 不要像我不那樣做。 就像Microsoft Windows一樣性感(不要擔心，我是Windows專家)，當用戶插入媒體時，他們的設計師真正了解用戶的意圖：

In this case, iOS doesn’t. It just sits there.

在這種情況下，iOS不會。 它只是坐在那里。

Let’s sketch up a quick and easy draft of what iOS should do when we plug in the SD card adapter:

讓我們草繪一下插入SD卡適配器時iOS應該做什么的快速簡單的草稿：

問題2：確實很危險的按鈕 (Problem #2: Really dangerous buttons)

All right, so we’ve navigated our way to the photos app of our iPhone. By the way, this is where the “OK” button in the wire-frame above should have taken us.

好的，所以我們已經導航到iPhone的照片應用程序。 順便說一句，這就是上面的線框中的“確定”按鈕應該帶給我們的地方。

I’d like to talk about two really dangerous things on this screen.

我想在這個屏幕上談論兩個非常危險的事情。

Delete All (wipes all media off your SD card)

全部刪除(將所有媒體從SD卡中清除)

Let’s remember why we bought the SD card adapter in the first place. I want to import photos and videos from the SD card to my phone.

讓我們記住為什么我們首先購買了SD卡適配器。 我想將照片和視頻從SD卡導入到手機中。

The first, and most prominent choice on this screen is to delete all contents of your SD card.

此屏幕上的第一個也是最重要的選擇是刪除SD卡的所有內容。

Let’s be real: deleting your entire SD card is usually an action taken very rarely, only really done when 1) you have to, because of lack of space, or 2) you are sure you have a backup.

真實地說：刪除整個SD卡通常很少執行，只有在1)由于空間不足而必須刪除或2) 確定有備份時才真正刪除。

In this screen, the designers of iOS have made it far too easy to make a terrible mistake. Yes, there is a confirmation step after pressing this button, but still.

在這個屏幕上，iOS的設計人員使犯下一個可怕的錯誤變得太容易了。 是的，按此按鈕后有一個確認步驟，但仍然如此。

Import All (imports all media to your iPhone)

全部導入(將所有媒體導入到您的iPhone)

This is a button with much less potential for disaster than its brother “Delete All”. However, the use-case is almost equally difficult to grasp. How often do you want to import all your photos and videos to your phone? Even if you wanted to, would you be able to?

與它的兄弟“全部刪除”相比，此按鈕的災難可能性要小得多。 但是，用例幾乎同樣難以掌握。 您想多久將所有照片和視頻導入手機一次？ 即使您愿意，也可以嗎？

Many SD Cards can contain hundreds of gigabytes of data, usually far exceeding any iPhone storage space.

許多SD卡可以包含數百GB的數據，通常遠遠超過任何iPhone的存儲空間。

Delete All and Import All have no business being this prominent. Begone.

全部刪除和全部 導入并沒有什么突出的功能。 eg子

問題3：圖標不一致 (Problem #3: Inconsistent iconography)

All right, I’ve made it this far. Time to import some photos!

好吧，我已經做到了。 是時候導入一些照片了！

Not so fast! Something’s off.

沒那么快！ 沒事了

The iconography here is confusing, and inconsistent. On the left side you see me importing photos. Here, by default, every image has a white outlined check mark. Once you actually select an image, it turns into a blue-filled check mark.

這里的圖像令人困惑，而且前后不一致。 在左側，您看到我正在導入照片。 在此，默認情況下，每個圖像都帶有白色輪廓勾號。 實際選擇圖像后，它將變成藍色填充的復選標記。

Why would you need two types of check marks?

為什么需要兩種復選標記？

This is inconsistent with how iOS works in general (right screen) where you only have a check mark on the images you have selected.

這與iOS總體上的工作方式(右屏幕)不一致，在iOS上，所選圖像僅帶有復選標記。

But all right, that’s a detail, we can get past that.

但是，好吧，這是一個細節，我們可以超越。

We’re so close.

我們好親近

Smooth sailing from here on out, right?

從這里開始順暢航行吧？

?Wrong?

?錯?

問題4：我們又回到了危險區域 (Problem #4: We’re back in the danger zone)

I want to import three photos.

我想導入三張照片。

I select those three, and press import. Then, I get this dialogue box:

我選擇這三個，然后按import。 然后，我得到這個對話框：

In this dialogue box, the most prominent choice offered to me is to

在此對話框中，提供給我的最突出的選擇是

Import all my photos.

導入我的所有照片。

Why? I manually selected three photos, because those are the three photos I want to import. Why does iOS insist I import all photos now?

為什么？ 我手動選擇了三張照片，因為這些是我要導入的三張照片。 為什么iOS堅持要我現在導入所有照片？

Here you’re in a fight with your muscle memory. Usually in this situation, you get a dialogue box with an “okay” on top and a “cancel” below. Too quick here, and you’ll import everything.

在這里，您正在與自己的肌肉記憶力作斗爭。 通常在這種情況下，您會看到一個對話框，頂部有一個“好”，而下方有一個“取消”。 在這里太快了，您將導入所有內容。

We pace ourselves and instead press “Import Selected”, which is what we wanted to do in the first place.

我們自己調整自己的步伐，而不是按“導入所選內容”， 這是我們首先要做的。

This time, we should be clear of any crazy User Experience Design tomfoolery, right?

這次，我們應該避免出現任何瘋狂的用戶體驗設計假說，對嗎？

?Wrong?

?錯?

問題5：更多危險 (Problem #5: More danger)

Once the three images are transferred, another dialogue box hits us. This time, we’re given the choice of deleting the images we just imported from the SD card, or keeping them.

一旦傳輸了三個圖像，另一個對話框就會出現。 這次，我們可以選擇刪除或保留剛剛從SD卡導入的圖像。

Again, iOS insists that it should be very easy to delete something off my SD Card. Very prominently, every time.

同樣，iOS堅稱刪除SD卡中的內容應該非常容易。 每次 都很突出 。

解 (Solution)

Here’s my solution.

這是我的解決方案。

In three easy steps, we are able to import all the photos we want without running the risk of deleting or importing anything we don’t want.

通過三個簡單的步驟，我們可以導入所需的所有照片，而無需刪除或導入不需要的任何內容。

Importing / deleting all photos are the least prominent options, and they are bundled under a clear label “SD Card Options” at the bottom of the screen.

導入/刪除所有照片是最不突出的選項，并且它們捆綁在屏幕底部的清晰標簽“ SD卡選項”下。

Thanks for reading!

謝謝閱讀！