Did you by any chance mean one of these? accordance, affirmance, affordable
Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A potential action that is made possible by a given object or environment; especially, one that is made easily discoverable.
Etymologies
- From afford + -ance; coined in 1977 by psychologist J. J. Gibson. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The Psychology of Everyday Things, where he introduced the term "affordance" to describe physical features that "afford" a user control over a function - in this case, opening a door.”
“The concept of "affordance" has captured the imagination of designers.”
“(There are entries for the related concepts affordance and emergence, however).”
“Of course this is a pain and close to impossible for anyone to find, but likely a better solution than adding a fourth UI affordance on the title bar.”
“A successful pretending object has to delicately balance pretending affordance with not making you look like an idiot.”
“Conversely, URLs have the opposite default affordance — people can go look at them and see what you have said about yourself, and computers can go and visit them and discover other ways to interact with what you have published, or ask you permission for more.”
It’s high time we moved to URL-based identifiers | FactoryCity
“Sort of echoing @Guillaume it does seem to me that from a branding perspective the name implies an affordance that is backwards.”
“Thus, the Web is rolling back modernity's affordance of mass access to the best of culture -- and may, Keen fears, result in the restoration of a feudal class system when it comes to culture and knowledge.”
“Just like the presence of the claims processors that Wenger wrote about in the office of the insurance company and their ability and being allowed to talk to each other, the platform of twitter and its affordance make mutual engagement possible.”
“Affordances, usually associated with human-computer interaction, industrial design, and environmental psychology, is here seen as the flipside of externalities: one person's externality is another's affordance.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘affordance’.
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mager's Words
enigmatic, pragmatic, pulchritudinous, nincompoop, annihilation, sociality, entailment, acrosome, egalitarian, culture, technocracy, shenanigan and 541 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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design thinking
A list of terms useful in the following areas of knowledge: designing thinking, visual design, interaction design, design research, usability studies, information architecture, and information design
affordance, abductive, modal, iteration, Breadcrumbs, information archi..., interaction design, mental model, user experience, satisficing, n+1 innovations, participatory design and 10 more...
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Important List
Words I should use more often..
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