Example: A door may afford pulling or pushing, depending on which way it opens. When a person can see in advance whether to pull or push the door to open it, that’s a good user interface.
- Design & Arts
“Affordance” was originally a psychology term used to define the possible actions between a person or animal and the world. Our colleague Donald A. Norman applied the term to the user-experience world in his classic book The Design of Everyday Things. Basically, in design an “affordance” is whatever can be done to an object.
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