Explore the power of affordances in UX design to enhance user experience by meeting cognitive, sensory, and emotional needs through engaging examples and expert insights.
This course dives into the exciting world of affordances in UX design. It breaks down five types and how to effectively use them to cater to users’ needs. Packed with videos, questions, and hands-on exercises, it’s a must for anyone wanting to enhance their design skills.
Use the power of affordances in UX design to meet users' cognitive, physical, sensory, emotional, and functional needs.
In this interesting, enlightening, and sometimes entertaining close-up look at the concepts, the author carefully and clearly defines and explains affordances. Five different types of affordances are distinguished and the author shows how practitioners should use them together in UX design.The types of affordance and principles of their use are illustrated with engaging examples.
The course is entirely in the form of videos, as voice-over on PowerPoint slides. Lectures are interspersed with thought questions and exercises. The approximate running time of all the videos is about four hours, including the time to work out the questions and exercises.
Why take this course? Few topics in HCI or UX have been as misunderstood and misused as the notion of “affordance”. Yet few concepts are as central to effective UX design. The author of this course is a leading expert in the subject and this presentation is based on a seminal paper and a defining book chapter.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
Know and apply the differences between the types of affordances in the context of UX design
Understand and apply the UX design issues for each type of affordance
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Rex Hartson, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized consultant, author, teacher, and speaker on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and User eXperience (UX). Hartson is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, where he was the founding faculty member in HCI in 1979. For 30 years, as a pioneer in HCI as a field and in usability engineering...
A very practical course that teaches UX from various perspectives. It had a lot of examples to clearly drive the point home. My only gripe was that the speaker spoke rather slowly, but thankfully there was a speed adjuster.
Really complete guide and awesome explanations with good and easy-to-understand examples.
A little bit of a slow start but pace and information picks up once Section 3 starts. Good basic primer for describing Affordances.
Excellent concise history with helpful references to foundational literature.
Really monotone voice, repetition of words, no hierarchy of information.
His course is thorough, but to me felt a bit obvious and tedious. Still, I learned about affordances, and that was the point. Good enough.
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Mark J.
good match