On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Christopher Hlavaty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the discipline of IxD, the word has been used to define a possible > action perceived by a user within some environment (Norman 1988). In the > classic example, the affordance of a door with a flat metal plate is > "push." The affordance resolves to a verb, an action to be performed. > > However, of late, I've seen the word used loosely to describe the clues > that suggest an object's possible actions...
Don Norman also saw that discrepancy, and at some point revised it to "perceivable affordance". I'll use the word around other designers, but for other audiences I'm careful to define it as I go. Victor ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
