Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet

Re:Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet by timcederman on Monday March 12, 2018 @03:43PM (#16570829)

Actually, it's designed to open outwards because when there's a crush of people, there's no room for the door to open inwards.

Also, affordances aren't to support habit or unconscious behavior. Affordances are to imply meaning or how to use something by their design (whether digital or physical).

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Re:Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet by scubadude on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @01:29AM (#16574032)

> Affordances are to imply meaning

That's actually called a signifier. https://ux.stackexchange.com/a/94270

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Re:Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet by timcederman on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @02:52AM (#16574258)

I disagree. A signifier gets into semiotics, but more explicitly. e.g. the word "push" is a signifier, but a large bar that makes it seem like you can push it is a perceived affordance.

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Re:Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet by apotheothesomai on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @03:44AM (#16574396)

Speaking of them as signifiers isn't useful here, but yes, these are signifiers. You said yourself they convey meaning. The implication of their use wouldn't happen without signification.

One could even write a book about the discourse of affordances. It would be boring and irrelevant, but it wouldn't be wrong.

Sorry, just defending the mechanics of meaning.

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Re:Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet by caveatemptor on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @04:12AM (#16574485)

Someone did (in a manner of speaking): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Design_of_Everyday_Things

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