Jeremy asked
On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 1:50 PM, Jeremy Hunsinger <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> What role does the theory of affordances play in design and the design
> process?
>
Keith commented
On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 2:09 PM, Keith Russell <
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> Dear Jeremy,
>
> I have pointed out to many PhD design students that they need a psychology
> of design.
For jeremy (and others who still question the relevance of affordances, I
recommend this truly excellent treatment:
Flach, J. M., et al. (2017). "Beyond Affordances: Closing the
Generalization Gap Between Design and Cognitive Science." Design
Issues *33*(1):
76-89.
Which I attach (if the digest permits it)
For Keith, well yes, which is why in the first (1988) edition of the book
that Introduced (my interpretation of Gibson's) Affordances to Design, I
called it "The Psychology of Everyday Things." Since then renamed "Design
of everyday Things" and updated in 2013 (to expand the concept of
affordances by adding the concept of "signifiers."
Don
Don Norman
Prof. and Director, DesignLab, UC San Diego
[log in to unmask] designlab.ucsd.edu/ www.jnd.org <http://www.jnd.org/>
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