![]() ![]() When affordances are taken advantage of, the user knows what to do just by looking: no picture, label, or instruction is needed. Affordances provide strong clues to the operations of things. Affordances and signifiersĪffordances refer to the perceived and actual properties of the thing - primarily those fundamental properties that determine just how the thing could possibly be used. Some examples of knowledge present in the world: mappings, physical constraints, affordances and signifiers etc. Some examples of things we already know: logical, cultural constraints, etc. ![]() ![]() We use things we already know and things that are present around the object to figure out how to go about using the thing we want to use. Things that I remember the most about this book: Knowledge in the Head and Knowledge in the World If you have anything to do with building products for people, you must read it - more so if you’re not the one directly responsible for designing it. I’m in fact slightly upset at myself for not reading it earlier, since it bring together so much of the modern design philosophy. ![]() I finally got around to Don Norman’s masterpiece in the later half of 2017, and I must say that it deserves every bit of praise that you may have heard about it. It’s okay to judge this one by its cover. ![]()
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