Affordance+Invitation

Affordance Invitation

This pattern plays off the familiar to invite the user to take an action or activate an event associated with an object.

You would use this pattern to cue an invitation to the user. Whenever there are additional interactions the user can activate this pattern helps to give the user a cue to actually perform the action. Affordance Invitation helps to bridge unfamiliar interactions with familiar idioms. For example revealing a hyperlink.

Familiar Idioms drop down arrows inverted arrows photos or objects turn into buttons

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