#affordances — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #affordances, aggregated by home.social.
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Zoom has rolled their own custom notifications on #macOS. The component's affordances are so much clearer than the OS's built-in one, it's not even funny. Unfortunately, this also adds more inconsistency to the overall OS #UX. Usually, I'd err on the side of consistency, because consistency also simplifies things: for designers, coders, and users. In this case, though, I appreciate that users can immediately experience the difference that clearer #affordances make in the overall system UX.
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Turns out... there's a secret special hidden socket part flap under the main socket!
Can you see it?! I dunno, man - why do they make things complicated?!Anyway, the best way to learn about electric vehicles is to be Wrong On Threads.
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TaY:n Alusta!ssa Janne Säynäjäkankaan 2025 lectioonsa perustuva kirjoitus affordansseiksi ymmärrettyjen resurssien demokraattisen jakamisen tärkeydestä antroposeenissä, https://blogs.tuni.fi/alustalehti/2026/01/21/antroposeeni-tekee-resurssien-demokraattisesta-jakamisesta-valttamatonta/
Resurssidemokratia lie juuri sitä mitä maailman mahtavat pelkäävät, jos jotain voi päätellä yhä kiihtyvästä hallinnan keskittämisen tarpeesta.
#antroposeeni #anthropocene #resurssit #resources #demokratia #democracy #ilmastonmuutos #luontokato #affordances #luonto #yhteiskunta #jakaminen
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@mamund 🧵Social Software Affordances
Explaining Twitter in 2009 was *much* more fun
"It is a sense of place, not space, which makes it appropriate to dance at a Grateful Dead concert, but not at a Cambridge college high table; to be naked in the bedroom, but not in the street; and to sit at our windows, peering out, rather than at other people's windows, peering in. Place, not space, frames appropriate behaviour."
https://tractionsoftware.com/traction/permalink/Blog1014
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“The key insight is simple. When you design for what a space affords rather than what it is for, you make room for agency. A stairwell can become circulation, seating, vantage point, or social node. None of that shows up in the tidy architectural models, yet all of it emerges in practice once the building comes to life.”
#architecture #affordances #UX
https://mastodon.social/@mamund/115865439639028623 -
A clever affordance of card index filing cabinet drawers
Someone recently mentioned to me that the small, portable 1,000 index card capacity cardboard box with lid that they use as a zettelkasten felt more like it was for deep storage rather than daily use. Perhaps it's a result of the fact that this is how most people have been using these cheaper cardboard boxes for the last 30+ years? They said they'd prefer to have a drawer or a box with an attached lid. It dawns on me that I've never mentioned one of the great affordances of many of the […]https://boffosocko.com/2026/01/07/a-clever-affordance-of-card-index-filing-cabinet-drawers/
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Re: Affordances and Lean CSS
Stephen Margheim (fractaledmind) wrote Affordances: The Missing Layer in Frontend Architecture this month. This quick post is my reply to his great article. I hear the objection already: “Isn’t this just… semantic CSS classes? We tried that.” You’re right that we tried it. But “it didn’t work” deserves unpacking. I was indeed objecting that in my mind. But I was not thinking, "it didn't work." I was thinking, "and it has kept working for decades. Obviously the utility-only workflow described is terrible; it's why I refuse to choose Tailwind. How are affordances better than what's worked for a decade?" […]https://kerrick.blog/posts/2025/re-affordances-and-lean-css/
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A quote about #affordances that I used in a #UX presentation _more than ten years ago_.
Whether you're a designer, a product stakeholder, or a user, ask yourself this question the next time you're stumped by a software application. If the answer is no, then that product's designers have failed you.
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This could be helpful. I used to have all my Flag & General Officer colleagues tagged so I could find the right leader(s) quickly. Same with my #EdTech colleagues. Then LinkedIn took that functionality away and made it only accessible for Premium (paid) members, which didnt make economic sense for me after I retired. This seems like something AI could sort for us very efficiently.
On the other hand, it would be just as easy for one of #AgolfShitler's new bounty hunters to (say) tell it to find everybody in their network who was Muslim, had started out in a different country, and had posted critically of #IsraelAtWarCrimes and its #genocide in Palestine, to flag them for deportation...or to find everybody in their network who posted critically OF CHANCELLOR SHITLER HIMSELF, or of the #ICEtapo's growing militancy, to send us to the camps.
Its also not difficult to imagine at least SOME entities (like, say, the #TurdReich regime) asking for and being granted or at least SOLD access to ALL LinkedIn member data, even folks you have no connection to.
As my wife's #technology #ethics work emphasizes, no technology is, in and of itself, inherently good or evil--but they ARE *what we design them to be,* with the #affordances and restraints (or lack thereof) that we GIVE them. And that requires an intentional deliberation which, too often, we're failing to give it.
https://www.theverge.com/news/819908/linkedin-ai-people-search-launch
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#CfP THE IMAGINATIVE LANDSCAPE OF AI – VISIONS, POSITIONS, CONFLICTS
❓ What are the #future #visions and #imaginaries of #communications, #society, and social change in diverse #global contexts in relation to #AI, #AGI and #ComAI?
❓ Which novel #ideological positions have emerged around the specific #affordances and #dilemmas of AI?
📣 We are looking for submissions for a Special Section of the International Journal of Communication addressing questions like these:
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"This personal calculus, however, only reinforces the central point: we must advocate for better #accessibility on all platforms. By embracing a philosophy of creating powerful, intelligent #affordances, developers can move beyond the baseline of 'making it work' and start building experiences that are truly empowering."
https://devinprater.micro.blog/2025/08/13/beyond-parity-the-case-for.html
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Programming Affordances That Invite Mistakes
https://thetechenabler.substack.com/p/programming-affordance-when-a-languages
#HackerNews #Programming #Affordances #Mistakes #SoftwareDevelopment #CodingBestPractices #TechInsights
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"So the idea is, that guns aren't neutral, but it is also true that who we are, *plus* the technology, that leads to the affordances it has."
#ShannonVallor, 2025
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/the-history-of-bad-ideas%3A-value-free-tech
#podcasts #PastPresentFuture #HistoryOfBadIdeas #technology #affordances
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If the #WWDC keynote screenshots are any indication, Apple has finally given up on good interaction design and decided to solidly place aesthetics over functionality.
UI controls without perceivable boundaries, features without meaningful #Affordances, gratuitous animations, plenty of visual clutter thanks to the transparency. (1/2)
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I've lost count of the number of times I accidentally grabbed a tab in a #macOS Finder window instead of the window's title bar if I want to move that window.
It is simply beyond comprehension, IMHO, that the #UX designers at Apple decided to remove any and all #affordances that clearly separate the tab from the title bar area.
And I fear that this aesthetics-over-usability mindset will dominate even more in the redesign announced for #WWDC2025.
Well, one can always hope… 😟
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Okay, I don't know if this is a #GTK thing, a #Gnome thing, a #LibreOffice thing, or a #Cinnamon thing, but I just discovered probably the most user-hostile "helpful" behaviour I've seen in a piece of #software in a long, long time.
The find-and-replace dialog in the LibreOffice #spreadsheet - I haven't checked the remainder of the apps - has the typical buttons for "Find All", "Find Previous", "Find Next", "Replace", and "Replace All".
... and no obvious keyboard shortcuts for them. Nothing shown, no #affordances, no typical underlined or bolded letter in each button's label text. Doing a large amount of selective search&replace (don't ask #Etsy cough cough) is incredibly painful. There's *got* to be #keyboard #shortcuts, right?
Here's the #evil: the shortcut keys are not indicated *until you hold down the alt key*. Then it underlines the appropriate letter in each button's label, but those underlines disappear again when you release the alt key.
So you can study this bloody dialog box until the cows come home and never see a hint of a keyboard shortcut, even though it has them.
#$*&!^%@ Who thought this was a good idea?
#usability #accessibility #KeyboardShortcut #UI #UX #Linux #FreeSoftware #OpenSource
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Very interesting series of videos questioning how the #computer #desktopinterface standard format affects how people think and interact with computers then expanding beyond computing to how we view the world and consciousness itself.
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Remember #affordances? Good times. #ui #ux #interactiondesign #skeumorphism
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We're bummed #ieeevis isn't in person, but that doesn't mean you can't reach out! Ask @racquel about her Doctoral Colloquium topic, "Non-interactive Visualization Affordances" -- she has some great ideas 👀 #affordances #hci #datavisualization
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Look at all those #UI #Affordances - textured resize corners, always-on scrollbars that communicate the visible proportion, buttons that look like buttons, hierarchically inset menu items.
So. Fucking. Hot. #Unf https://botsin.space/@osxthemes/112813988100601573
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A very warm welcome to our new postdoc Dr. Anjana Arunkumar, who successfully defended her thesis at ASU this past week and will be joining our lab via Northeastern's Oakland campus! Anjana's research focuses on how visualization aesthetics and affordances influence decision-making
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Adopting emerging information technology: A new affordances process framework
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0268401224000203
"[W]e propose a framework that combines affordances theory and the resource orchestration process to explain the steps that organizations take to actualize the affordances of emerging IT. " -- #LuisaMarieleStrauss #AmarolindaZanelaKlein #EusebioScornavacca
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imho, this image - the MAU curve of lemmy is the big news on the #fediverse. While also #mastodon and other platforms experienced peaks last summer, #lemmy is the only one that is consistently on the rise in 2024. Arguably, this is thanks to particular #affordances, like the fact that older posts of wider appreciation do not get overwhelmed in feeds.
More charts at https://fedidb.org
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Just spent almost 15 minutes on hold so that a rep could tell me that #UX is bad and #affordances are dead.
This is a dropdown‽‽
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🚨 Excited to share our latest article, which just came out open access in New Media & Society 🤗
https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448231205892Cristina Miguel, Filip Majetić, Rodrigo Perez-Vega and I explore the self-presentation of #digital #nomads (DNs) on #Instagram, including #audience management and #affordances
Using qualitative interviews with #photo elicitation, we find that DNs stress freedom, enjoyment, and adventure, but de-prioritize posting about #work. Stories are highly valued for their authenticity.
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Let’s talk #affordances: “The Arrangement of Marks Impacts Afforded Messages” ft. @racquel & @ebertini will be in Room 109 10:45-12 on Thursday @ieeevis (https://cs.paperswithcode.com/paper/the-arrangement-of-marks-impacts-afforded) #IEEVIS
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The purpose of #design is to #create new or/and different #artificial structures (artifacts), so speaking of design makes sense only if it is in the context of other creative #production activities such as writing, painting, engineering, manufacturing, etc.
Klaus Krippendorff has a nice description of the difference between #object and #artifact and the relationship to Gibson’s #affordances in this 2007 paper published in “Kybernetes”:
https://researchgate.net/publication/45597493_The_Cybernetics_of_Design_and_the_Design_of_Cybernetic
However, he is wrong, IMO, in accentuating the difference between #scientists and #designers.
Every designer is often a scientist in “describing what can be observed” and every scientist also has to design new hypotheses, theories, and experiments for the “not yet observable and measurable”.
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Latest papers: Matthew Crippen and Dag Munk Lindemann discuss selective permeability, multiculturalism and #affordances in #education https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2023.2255612 @philosophy @education