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The Design of Everyday Things
- Affordance is a property or feature of an object which presents a prompt on what can be done with this object. In short, affordances are cues which give a hint how users may interact with something, no matter physical or digital. For example, when you see a door handle, it is a prompt you can use it to open the door. When you see a receiver icon, i... See more
from UX Design Glossary: How to Use Affordances in User Interfaces
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Affordances represent the possibilities in the world for how an agent (a person, animal, or machine) can interact with something. Some affordances are perceivable, others are invisible.
from The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition by Don Norman
“Two of the most important characteristics of good design are discoverability and understanding.”
― Donald A. Norman, The Design of Everyday Things
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- Two of the most important characteristics of good design are discoverability and understanding.
from The Design Of Everyday Things by Don Norman
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An affordance is a relationship between the properties of an object and the capabilities of the agent that determine just how the object could possibly be used.
from The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition by Don Norman
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1. Discoverability. It is possible to determine what actions are possible and the current state of the device. 2. Feedback. There is full and continuous information about the results of actions and the current state of the product or service. After an action has been executed, it is easy to determine the new state. 3. Conceptual model. The design p
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