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Web Design with Figma: Building Striking Compositions

Affordances in UI

A course by Pablo Stanley , Designer and Illustrator

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About the video: Affordances in UI

Overview

“In this lesson I'll talk about the term 'affordances' and how to implement them in our interfaces.”

In this video lesson Pablo Stanley addresses the topic: Affordances in UI, which is part of the Domestika online course: Web Design with Figma: Building Striking Compositions. Learn the principles behind creating strong digital compositions that take your designs to the next level.

Partial transcription of the video

“In the last lesson, we learned about visual hierarchy. In this lesson, we're going to understand how to create affordances in UI. Let's do it. Celebrated designer Don Norman coined the term perceived affordances. to refer to properties of components that show users the actions they can take. Users should be able to perceive affordances without having to think about how to use the component. For example, a button can look like it needs to be pushed or rotated or pulled. In the end, we want to design interfaces in which the user doesn't need to guess which areas are static content and which b...”

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Course summary for: Web Design with Figma: Building Striking Compositions

Level: Beginner
99% positive reviews (616)
17379 students
5 units
20 lessons (2h 43m)

Category
Web & App Design
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Figma
Areas
App Design, Digital Design, Digital Product Design, Mobile Design, UX / UI, Web Design

Pablo Stanley

A course by Pablo Stanley

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Designer and Illustrator

Pablo Stanley is a Mexican designer, illustrator, and co-founder of the creative design tool Blush. He studied design and visual communications at university before starting his career as a creative director.

Since then, he’s worked as a lead at Invision, a staff designer at Lyft, and co-founded both Carbon Health and Blush. He hosts workshops around the world and has a podcast about design and technology. Alongside writing and illustrating the comic The Design Team, he also shares his work with over 45K followers on Instagram.