{"id":45,"date":"2015-01-03T14:30:29","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T19:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/?p=45"},"modified":"2015-01-06T00:08:45","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T05:08:45","slug":"day-3-signifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/day-3-signifier\/","title":{"rendered":"Signifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Word<\/strong>:\u00a0Signifier<\/p>\n<p><strong>Definition:<\/strong> A\u00a0signal that communicates appropriate behavior to a person and where an action should take place.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference:\u00a0<\/strong>Don Norman explains the subtle difference between signifiers and affordances in his book, \"The Design of Everyday Things.\" He amended the\u00a0book in later editions\u00a0because\u00a0while the design community\u00a0took fondly\u00a0to the term affordance, Norman\u00a0believed it was\u00a0being improperly used (based on his definition).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts\/Questions:\u00a0<\/strong>Touch screens afford touching... but as to where and how to touch, this is a signifier.<\/p>\n<p>How do you use\u00a0\"affordance\" and \"signifier\"? Should the terms be defined by Norman himself, or should it take the meaning that the larger community as a whole has assigned?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word:\u00a0Signifier Definition: A\u00a0signal that communicates appropriate behavior to a person and where an action should take place. Reference:\u00a0Don Norman explains the subtle difference between signifiers and affordances in his book, &#8220;The Design of Everyday Things.&#8221; He amended the\u00a0book in later editions\u00a0because\u00a0while the design community\u00a0took fondly\u00a0to the term affordance, Norman\u00a0believed it was\u00a0being improperly used (based on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[12,13,14,8,9],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terms","tag-affordance","tag-don-norman","tag-signifier","tag-user-experience","tag-ux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}