UX Design Glossary: How to Use Affordances in User Interfaces
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UX Design Glossary: How to Use Affordances in User Interfaces
The goal of the designer is often to get the user into flow (in the Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi sense) while performing a task. The goal of the designer is to ensure that the touchpoints are clear and actionable, to help the user keep the agent on track.
Christopher Noessel • Designing Agentive Technology
To summarize: • Affordances are the possible interactions between people and the environment. Some affordances are perceivable, others are not. • Perceived affordances often act as signifiers, but they can be ambiguous. • Signifiers signal things, in particular what actions are possible and how they should be done. Signifiers must be perceivable, e
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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.
Don Norman • The Design of Everyday Things
Affordances provide strong clues to the operations of things.
Rory Sutherland • Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life
To summarize: • Affordances are the possible interactions between people and the environment. Some affordances are perceivable, others are not. • Perceived affordances often act as signifiers, but they can be ambiguous. • Signifiers signal things, in particular what actions are possible and how they should be done. Signifiers must be perceivable, e
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