Affordances, motivation, and the design of user interfaces
John Karat, Clare-Marie Karat, Jacob P. Ukelson · Communications of the ACM · 2000
How do we design user interfaces with affordances that make these tools "ready to hand" for their users?Current user interfaces do not display the kind of affordances that a hammer or a doorknob does for a user in the physical world.We are not there yet, but there is progress in this direction.One might assume there is progress because we are developing more natural technologies-speech recognition and output, and AFFORDANCES,