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Prioritizing Web Usability – “Affordance” is whatever can be done to an object. –

“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.

Source: Prioritizing Web Usability (Book) by Jakob Nielsen Hoa Loranger

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