Affordance
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In psychology, affordance is what the environment offers the individual. In design, affordance has a narrower meaning; it refers to possible actions that an actor can readily perceive.
The design of tea cups and a teapot suggest their respective functions.
A door knob shaped to reflect how it is used, is an example of a perceivable affordance.
The Design of Everyday Things is a best-selling book by cognitive scientist and usability engineer Donald Norman. Originally published in 1988 with the title The Psychology of Everyday Things, it is o
Affordance
…synonymous with Gibson's work, although Gibson himself never made any reference to action possibilities in any of his writing. Through Norman's book The Design of Everyday Things, this interpretation was popularized within the fields of HCI, interaction design, and user-centered design. It makes the concept dependent not only…
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