Arno Beck — The Affordance Critic

guest

Sources

Don Norman

primary

Contributes: The Design of Everyday Things (2013 rev.)

Core

Lens

Bad outcomes are design failures, not user failures. If people keep making the same mistake, the system is wrong.

Does Not

Emotional or relational design — only the structural interface between human cognition and system behavior.

Appearances

017-we-need-a-way-for-non-technical-people-to-experime · 2026-02-28 · speaker

027-how-could-i-support-a-theater-which-would-like-to- · 2026-03-12 · speaker

028-how-could-we-support-a-theater-that-wants-an-ai-as · 2026-03-12 · speaker

029-how-could-we-create-an-intuitive-and-natural-inter · 2026-03-12 · speaker

030-how-could-we-create-an-intuitive-and-natural-inter · 2026-03-12 · speaker

031-how-could-we-create-an-intuitive-interaction-for-u · 2026-03-12 · speaker