Affordances and Signifiers

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Post by jujodi » Sun, Mar 28, 2021, 7:35 PM UTC

Affordances and Signifiers
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Re: Affordances and Signifiers

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Post by jujodi » Sun, Mar 28, 2021, 7:35 PM UTC

There's an incessant confusion about what an Affordance is in software design. This is a quick heuristic and justification for why it matters.

Re: Affordances and Signifiers

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Post by cinntaile » Sun, Mar 28, 2021, 8:24 PM UTC

jujodi wrote: post #2

There's an incessant confusion about what an Affordance is in software design. This is a quick heuristic and justification for why it matters.

The book "the design of everyday things" by Don Norman deals with this for design. I think he even coined the term?

Re: Affordances and Signifiers

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Post by jujodi » Mon, Mar 29, 2021, 10:23 AM UTC

cinntaile wrote: post #3

jujodi wrote: post #2

There's an incessant confusion about what an Affordance is in software design. This is a quick heuristic and justification for why it matters.

The book "the design of everyday things" by Don Norman deals with this for design. I think he even coined the term?

Yep, I think he actually coined the term signifiers while pleading for the the same distinction I'm trying to make. James J Gibson coined the term affordances though as far as I know.