Signifiers, Not Affordance
Signifier
It's an indicator which can be
interpreted meaningfully.
Social signifiers
They are those that are relevant to social usages.
Signifying social activity
or appropriate social behavior
It is really important in the society, people are always looking for clues (signifiers), so we must try to facilitate with these ones.
Deliverated:
When the signifier is placed on purpose to express a specific message.
Incidental:
When the signifier expresses something that was not necessarily meant to be conveyed
Times and technologies have changed.
Affordance
We must provide signifiers,
not affordances.
It's used to refer
to a relationship: the actions
possible by a specific agent on a
specific environment.
We should pay attention to our design principles. We need new priniciples.
