{"id":345,"date":"2009-12-11T14:16:43","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T19:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/?p=345"},"modified":"2009-12-11T14:16:43","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T19:16:43","slug":"assumptions-affordances-and-melted-plastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/assumptions-affordances-and-melted-plastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Assumptions, Affordances, and Melted Plastic."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"first-letter\">Y<\/span>esterday, while melting butter in a pan on my stovetop, I reached for a spatula, grabbing the smaller of my set of two. Since they came packaged together and the larger spatula was heat-proof silicone, I assumed the smaller one was as well. It took me a few moments to realize that I was calmly swirling melted plastic into my melted butter.<\/p>\n<p>As designers, we need to be mindful of the unintended hints we give our users, and the bevy of wrong turns our users may take given those hints. Who&#8217;s out there melting plastic into your website?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, while melting butter in a pan on my stovetop, I reached for a spatula, grabbing the smaller of my set of two. Since they came packaged together and the larger spatula was heat-proof silicone, I assumed the smaller one was as well. It took me a few moments to realize that I was calmly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[33,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}