Timeline for How do you show non-affordance?
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| Nov 28, 2012 at 10:44 | vote | accept | JohnGB♦ | ||
| Aug 1, 2012 at 14:48 | answer | added | Leigh Riffel | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 29, 2012 at 0:51 | comment | added | Jimmy Breck-McKye | ...Why are users clicking the icon? Maybe there's an action you can actually attach to the image - even if it's just opening a tooltip or modal dialog explaining what the icon means and what the user can do about it. | |
| Jul 26, 2012 at 23:52 | answer | added | Aadaam | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 26, 2012 at 19:54 | comment | added | PhillipW | Don seems to use the term constraint to mean something different here: jnd.org/dn.mss/affordance_conv.html | |
| Jul 26, 2012 at 14:13 | answer | added | kastark | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 26, 2012 at 13:54 | comment | added | Jørn E. Angeltveit | I have always considered "constraints" to be the opposite of "affordance" (ref. Don Norman, "The Design of Everyday Things"). Eg: Disabled/flat buttons, "illegal action" icon, square-peg-in-a-round-hole etc | |
| Jul 26, 2012 at 13:48 | comment | added | kastark | @PhillipW - as I understand the term, affordance must suggest an action. Non-affordance would therefore imply a lack of affordance, implying a lack of potential action. I think I'll expand this line of thinking into an answer to explain further. | |
| Jul 26, 2012 at 13:35 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackUX/status/228483606220255233 | ||
| Jul 26, 2012 at 12:25 | comment | added | PhillipW | In terns of Don Norman's use of the term 'affordance' (Design of Everyday Things) there wouldn't be any such thing as a 'non-affordance'. What you want is an affordance that indicates flags up the lack of interaction potential. | |
| Jul 26, 2012 at 11:50 | answer | added | Peter | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 26, 2012 at 11:11 | comment | added | kastark | Interesting question; the inverse counterpart to the more normal problem of signalling affordance. I imagine the answers are going to be tightly tied to the same general principles. | |
| Jul 26, 2012 at 11:07 | history | asked | JohnGB♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
