UX is best when there are some affordances.

· Bits and Bobs 4/7/25
  • UX is best when there are some affordances.
    • For example, a physical button that tells you what you can do with it.
    • The user doesn't have to proactively recall how to interact with the system, they can see (or even feel!) the button.
    • We lost all the physical buttons in the shift to touch screens.
    • Now with the shift to chatbots we also lost all of the buttons.
    • Just a wall of undifferentiated text.
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