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How Artifacts Afford: Reflections on Memory Training Software Design w/ Jenny L. Davis

The Craft of Memory Podcast

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The Power of Affordance and Memory Palace Design

I recently wrote an article on affordance and memory palace design. What are your thoughts? Does affordance apply only to physical objects or can it also be applied to the realm of the mind, like memory space or things that one can't touch or hold in their hands? Absolutely. It can expand beyond the physical and I thought and I thought your essay was a really great example of that power for can apply to not just the material, but also to the cognitive. Even if it's not with a materiality, but by using that materiality metaphor.

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