affordance
Meaning
- (countable) Anything that is provided or furnished by an environment to an organism dwelling within it.
- (countable) A potential transaction or operation that is made possible by a given object or environment; especially, one that is made easily discoverable.
- (countable) Any interactive control or component serving as a cue to the user to take some action.
Translations
Etymology
From afford + -ance; coined in 1977 by psychologist James J. Gibson, and adopted in 1988 by Donald Norman in the context of human-machine interaction.
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