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  1. …in reply to @SaraSoueidan
    SaraSoueidan edent Great post! An interesting detail I learned a while ago: Don Norman has since said that introducing the term “affordance” to the design community was a mistake because it is not precise enough.
    1. …in reply to @m_ott
      SaraSoueidan edent The term “affordance” is the relationship between a person and an object. What we are designing, however, are the clues to operation, “the signals it sends about what is possible”. He now calls those “signifiers”.