Sunday, January 22

Wk4 reading (Norman)

Norman, Don. The Psychology of Everyday Things: Affordance, Convention and Design. Available online at: http://jnd.org/dn.mss/affordance_conv.html; Affordances and Design. Available online at: http://jnd.org/dn.mss/affordances_and.html.

Ok so the key to this article was the word affordance. And, of course we retain the concept of perception (the running theme so far.) What is the subtlety to the word affordance in the digital interface design sense? ... perception -plus- functionality -plus- feedback (just for good measure.)

Oh yeah, and conform to convention... and create some consistancy.

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