# Affordances **Domain:** Design / Ecological Psychology / Interfaces **Doc Type:** Concept Node **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[Human Agency]], [[Choice Architecture]], [[Design for Dignity]], [[Mid-Century Design Grammar]] --- ## Definition **Affordances** are action possibilities made available by the relation between an agent and an environment. In design, perceived affordances help users understand what an object permits or invites. ## Corpus Context The corpus uses affordances to connect [[Human Factors]] with governance. An interface can expand agency, conceal alternatives or make a system-authored path feel self-evident. [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]] reads mid-century objects through this relational lens. ## Key Insight **This node connects its historical or conceptual subject to the corpus without treating analogy as proof of direct influence.** ## See Also [[Human Agency]], [[Choice Architecture]], [[Design for Dignity]], [[Mid-Century Design Grammar]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]