affordance.
Anything that is provided or furnished by an environment to an organism dwelling within it.
Meaning & usage
Anything that is provided or furnished by an environment to an organism dwelling within it.
A potential transaction or operation that is made possible by a given object or environment; especially, one that is made easily discoverable.
Any interactive control or component serving as a cue to the user to take some action.
The grab handles on the edges of this image are affordances that the user can exploit to change the size of the image.
Where this word comes from
From afford + -ance; coined in 1977 by psychologist James J. Gibson, and adopted in 1988 by Donald Norman in the context of human-machine interaction.
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