affordance
Noun
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Noun
affordance (plural affordances)
- Anything that is provided or furnished by an environment to an organism dwelling within it, whether good or bad.
- (human-machine interaction) A potential transaction or operation that is made possible by a given object or environment; especially, one that is made easily discoverable.
- (GUI, by extension) 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.
- affordant
- French: affordance, potentialité
- German: Angebotscharakter, Affordanz, Aufforderungscharakter, Anbietung
- Spanish: ofrecimiento
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