TermCraft conventionFoundational
Signifier
The visual hint that tells you something is clickable.
Definition
A perceivable cue that communicates where and how an action can be performed.
Craft convention. True because the industry converged on it. Breaking it costs familiarity, not correctness.
In plain language
The visual hint that tells you something is clickable.
Example
An underline on a link, a border on a button, or a drag handle on a list row.
Continue from here
Each link says what the connection is, so you can tell a principle from an alternative from a thing people mix this up with.
Deeper reading
The full entry behind this definition.
- Affordances and SignifiersPrinciple
- Visual StatesUI foundation
Nearby in the Atlas
Adjacent territory, found through shared tags rather than a stated link.