文章出处：Design principle: The power of desire lines

词语

• Once upon a time
• consequence
• evidence
• accurate indicator
• inappropriate
• hierarchy

句型

• he decided to leave the courtyard and other grassy areas around the building without sidewalks.

leave A around B
在B周围放置A

• This is the surest way to know what your users really want.
• Letting users behavior dictate the UX of your product is the essence of user-centered design.
• Desire lines are an unbiased and **statistical **measure of how people use things. The perfect blueprint for your design.
• How many times have you seen trails in the grass that break off of a paved walkway? I am guilty of making some of these, everyday I go to work.
• Be one of the great designers, who puts the extra hours to understand the users needs.
• You will need to dig deeper and try to discover the pattern by talking to your users.

段落

• The problem with not observing the desire lines is that you will end up doing designer-centered design. Designers try to design how space should be used by putting in sidewalks, buttons and etc. Yet, people simply refuse to follow the designed path.