WIRED is an application in the iPad that allows users to have a new digital magazine experience. It changed the traditional way of reading e-magazines and provided readers with all kinds of information in an interactive and interesting way. This blog will analyze the embodiment of affordance in this app.
Medium
First of all, this app is another way of reading magazine in the medium of IPad. Compared with traditional computers, readers of IPad can enter the experience of obtaining information more immersively, and can obtain information more easily, because The user can directly click the button with his finger for an interactive experience.
Participatory
I think this app is very attractive to participate. First of all, as I mentioned above, this is a more novel reading experience than paper magazines or old-fashioned online reading apps, because it can facilitate readers to immerse themselves in information through interaction.
For example, as shown in the figure above, by clicking the button with a numerical sequence, to show the reader how the animation is completed step by step. And this button has a high degree of recognition and has digital prompts, users can easily know how to use it to obtain information.
For another example, in the picture above, readers can move their fingers on the chute-style timeline to show the changes experienced by the earth from time as the scale axis.
Spatial
Drag the button to drive the rotation of Mars to display the location where the meteorite falls on Mars. Compared with the traditional typesetting or reading method, this app obviously makes the information more tidy, and it is also convenient for readers to understand and have the information displayed in space.
Conclusion
I think this app has attracted readers to participate by increasing interaction, at the same time, it provides readers with information in the most concise way, and readers can easily know how to use it.