Quotes About Affordances

The human young must learn to perceive these affordances, in some degree at least, but the young of some animals do not have time to learn the ones that are crucial for survival.

Affordances define what actions are possible. Signifiers specify how people discover those possibilities: signifiers are signs, perceptible signals of what can be done. Signifiers are of far more importance to designers than are affordances.

One of the emotional affordances of digital communication is that one can always hide behind deliberated nonchalance.

Knowledge in the world includes perceived affordances and signifiers, the mappings between the parts that appear to be controls or places to manipulate and the resulting actions, and the physical constraints that limit what can be done. Knowledge

Affordances determine what actions are possible. Signifiers communicate where the action should take place. We

Affordances determine what actions are possible. Signifiers communicate where the action should take place.

Perceived affordances help people figure out what actions are possible without the need for labels or instructions.