http://www.formfunctionemotion.net/archives/2004/06/04/affordance.html Usability, design and customer experience Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:32:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 http://www.formfunctionemotion.net/archives/2004/06/04/affordance.html#comment-48 Tue, 26 Dec 2006 22:57:52 +0000 http://www.formfunctionemotion.net/archives/2004/06/04/affordance.html#comment-48 [...] What makes you push a button? What is ‘buttonness’? What is the cue that makes you, when faced with a vending machine, push the right bit of the interface - the button - so you get the right drink? I have always found this subject rather fascinating, from my observations about affordance to ketchup bottles to doorhandles, but this particular ‘buttonness’ is a good one as it gets me again and again, I never learn, and, in fact I don’t believe I can ever learn. [...] […] What makes you push a button? What is ‘buttonness’? What is the cue that makes you, when faced with a vending machine, push the right bit of the interface - the button - so you get the right drink? I have always found this subject rather fascinating, from my observations about affordance to ketchup bottles to doorhandles, but this particular ‘buttonness’ is a good one as it gets me again and again, I never learn, and, in fact I don’t believe I can ever learn. […]

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