affordance

Etymology
From ; coined in 1977 by psychologist, and adopted in 1988 by Donald Norman in the context of human-machine interaction.

Noun

 * 1) Anything that is provided or furnished by an environment to an organism dwelling within it, whether good or bad.
 * 2)  A potential transaction or operation that is made possible by a given object or environment; especially, one that is made easily discoverable.
 * 3)  Any interactive control or component serving as a cue to the user to take some action.
 * The grab handles on the edges of this image are affordances that the user can exploit to change the size of the image.
 * The grab handles on the edges of this image are affordances that the user can exploit to change the size of the image.

Translations

 * Finnish: affordanssi, käyttömahdollisuus
 * French: ,
 * German: Angebotscharakter,, , Anbietung
 * Italian: affordance
 * Polish: afordancja, dostarczant
 * Serbo-Croatian:, mogućnost
 * Spanish: