Affordances
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Design
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An object or system's properties that show the possible actions that can take be taken with it, thereby suggesting how they may interact with that system or object. For example, a button can look as if it needs to be turned or pushed, those characteristics communicating its affordances.Origin
Coined by James J. Gibson in his 1966 book, "The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems."