Quotes About Perception

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.

In the absence of external information, people can let their imagination run free as long as the conceptual models they develop account for the facts as they perceive them. As

In the absence of external information, people can let their imagination run free as long as the conceptual models they develop account for the facts as they perceive them.

Attractive things certainly should be preferred over ugly ones, but why would they work better? Yet in the early 1990s, two Japanese researchers, Masaaki Kurosu and Kaori Kashimura, claimed just that.

In some Australian Aborigine societies, time moves relative to the environment based on the direction in which the sun rises and sets. Give

We can see what is in front of us, but not what is behind, just as we can remember what happened in the past, but we can't remember the future. Not only that, but we can remember recent events much more clearly than long past events, captured neatly by the visual metaphor in which the past lines up before us, the most recent events being closest so that they clearly perceived (remembered), with long/past events far in the distance, remembered and perceived with difficulty.

everything you do has both a cognitive and an affective component—cognitive to assign meaning, affective to assign value.

Good designers worry a lot about the physical feel of their products. Physical touch and feel can make a huge difference in your appreciation of their creations. Consider the delights of smooth, polished metal, or soft leather, or a soil ...

Make something too secure, and it becomes less secure.

Cognition and emotion are tightly intertwined, which means that the designers must design with both in mind.

You are designing for people the way you would like them to be, not for the way they really are." When

Do not be satisfied when others think of you as being devout—but truly be in reality what you appear to be. Woe to the man who is not pious yet wants to be considered as such.

Of course we did everything right, insofar as we were able to imagine what right was.

All of us...still believe that the American flag betokens a kind of general righteousness. But I say...that signs are signs and some of them are lies.

art is a meditation upon external reality rather than a representation of external reality

Have you noticed the weather? asked Thomas. All turned to look for the weather.

The mind carries you with it, away from what you are supposed to do, toward things that cannot be explained rationally, toward difficulty, lack of clarity, late-afternoon light.

It is a curiosity of writing about angels that, very often, one turns out to be writing about men.

Truth, as Bergson knew, is a hard apple, whether one is throwing it or catching it.

My criticism was that you never understood the larger picture, said the Dead Father. Young men never understand the larger picture. -I don't suggest I understand it now. I do understand the frame. The limits. -Of course the frame is easier to understand. -Older people tend to overlook the frame, even when they are looking right at it, said Thomas. They don't like to think about it.

he is insane because when he loved you, you didn't notice.

I noticed that he was an Irish setter, rust-colored. He noticed that I was a Welsh sculptor, buff-colored (no, really, what did he notice? how does he think?) I reflected that he was probably a nice dog from a good home (bourgeois dog) but with certain unfortunate habits like jumping on people from high windows (rationalization: he is a member of the television generation and thus -)