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The interface designer must either already have the knowledge about what the user can or cannot do, and what the user needs and wants, or have the means available to ascertain that knowledge. This is far more easily said than done. It is complicated by the fact that there are so many different types or categories of users (Section 3.2).
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Treu, S. (1994). User Capabilities and Limitations. In: User Interface Design. Languages and Information Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2429-8_3
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