Affordance

noun/ʌfˈɔrdʌns/design
Definition
What an environment offers individuals.
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.
In a sentence
  • A good button's affordance makes it obvious that you should click it.
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Vocabulary.md
added 2023-10-11