Misusing affordances?
Clark Quinn,
Learnlets,
Oct 11, 2022
It's interesting how the use of a term can reveal how one thinks about the world. Here Clark Quinn describes how he has used the term 'affordances'. The definition of the term is this: "the quality or property of an object that defines its possible uses or makes clear how it can or should be used." This is how I use it (and I use it quite a bit). Quinn, though, contrasts this meaning with his use of something called 'core affordances', which I would loosely describe as the use of the object intended by its creators or developers. It reflects a type of essentialism in his perspective, and so he speaks of what we can (say) do 'naturally' with an LMS or some other technology. But does a technology have an essential nature? I don't think so. Image: UX Collective.
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