I was talking with my non-techie wife tonight. She was talking about how she was training staff to use some new software. The software made heavy use of wizards to accomplish tasks. Her question to me was "Why are wizards called 'wizards?' Are they made by some nerd with an interest in Dungeons & Dragons?"
今晚我和我的非技术人员说话。她在谈论她是如何培训员工使用一些新软件的。该软件大量使用向导来完成任务。她对我的问题是“为什么巫师被称为'巫师?'他们是由一些对“龙与地下城”感兴趣的书呆子制作的吗?“
I realized that, while the "nerd" and "Dungeons & Dragons" were true in my case, I didn't know the origin of of the term "wizard" as it relates to a part of an application that guides a user through some difficult process.
我意识到,虽然“书呆子”和“龙与地下城”在我的情况下是正确的,但我不知道术语“向导”的起源,因为它涉及引导用户通过某些应用程序的应用程序的一部分困难的过程。
I'm curious to see what thoughts others here have on this great and weighty question.
我很想知道其他人在这个伟大而重要的问题上有什么想法。
5 个解决方案
#1
My impression is that it's related to the meaning of wizard that's similar to "expert". A UI wizard is like a (very simple) expert system. The wizard/"expert" asks you a series of questions to figure out what you want, and then they use their "expertise" to generate a result.
我的印象是,它与向导的含义有关,类似于“专家”。 UI向导就像一个(非常简单的)专家系统。向导/“专家”会向您询问一系列问题以找出您想要的内容,然后他们会使用他们的“专业知识”来生成结果。
#2
One of the original Wizard interfaces, was with Microsoft Publisher 2.0.
原始的向导界面之一,与Microsoft Publisher 2.0。
The wizard part came after the last dialog page, where it would 'magically' perform the actions required to achieve the task requested in the wizard, and actually show you how to do it. For example, running the Greeting Card Wizard, would show you how to set the aspect ratio, paper size, etc.
向导部分位于最后一个对话框页面之后,它将“神奇地”执行完成向导中所请求任务所需的操作,并实际向您展示如何执行此操作。例如,运行贺卡向导,将显示如何设置宽高比,纸张大小等。
I guess user interface testing showed that not enough people were following the wizard tutorial, and just skipped through it to get the desired result, because this functionality was dropped in later versions of Publisher.
我猜用户界面测试显示没有足够的人按照向导教程,只是跳过它来获得所需的结果,因为此功能在更高版本的Publisher中被删除。
#3
Because they magically guide the user through the process to achieve the users goal.
因为他们神奇地引导用户通过这个过程来实现用户目标。
#4
I believe Microsoft invented and introduced the term, no doubt for marketing related reasons.
我相信微软发明并推出了这个术语,无疑是出于营销相关的原因。
#5
I guess because user interfaces that configured things that were previously done manually must have seemed like magic to users. It's a pretty good analogy if you think about it - this little config app is doing many many things with a single "wave of the wand" as it were.
我想因为配置以前手动完成的事情的用户界面对用户来说似乎是神奇的。如果你考虑一下,这是一个相当不错的类比 - 这个小配置应用程序正在用一根“魔杖”做很多事情。
#1
My impression is that it's related to the meaning of wizard that's similar to "expert". A UI wizard is like a (very simple) expert system. The wizard/"expert" asks you a series of questions to figure out what you want, and then they use their "expertise" to generate a result.
我的印象是,它与向导的含义有关,类似于“专家”。 UI向导就像一个(非常简单的)专家系统。向导/“专家”会向您询问一系列问题以找出您想要的内容,然后他们会使用他们的“专业知识”来生成结果。
#2
One of the original Wizard interfaces, was with Microsoft Publisher 2.0.
原始的向导界面之一,与Microsoft Publisher 2.0。
The wizard part came after the last dialog page, where it would 'magically' perform the actions required to achieve the task requested in the wizard, and actually show you how to do it. For example, running the Greeting Card Wizard, would show you how to set the aspect ratio, paper size, etc.
向导部分位于最后一个对话框页面之后,它将“神奇地”执行完成向导中所请求任务所需的操作,并实际向您展示如何执行此操作。例如,运行贺卡向导,将显示如何设置宽高比,纸张大小等。
I guess user interface testing showed that not enough people were following the wizard tutorial, and just skipped through it to get the desired result, because this functionality was dropped in later versions of Publisher.
我猜用户界面测试显示没有足够的人按照向导教程,只是跳过它来获得所需的结果,因为此功能在更高版本的Publisher中被删除。
#3
Because they magically guide the user through the process to achieve the users goal.
因为他们神奇地引导用户通过这个过程来实现用户目标。
#4
I believe Microsoft invented and introduced the term, no doubt for marketing related reasons.
我相信微软发明并推出了这个术语,无疑是出于营销相关的原因。
#5
I guess because user interfaces that configured things that were previously done manually must have seemed like magic to users. It's a pretty good analogy if you think about it - this little config app is doing many many things with a single "wave of the wand" as it were.
我想因为配置以前手动完成的事情的用户界面对用户来说似乎是神奇的。如果你考虑一下,这是一个相当不错的类比 - 这个小配置应用程序正在用一根“魔杖”做很多事情。