Signifiers and Affordances for Chatbots: How to hack the system

Joe Toscano⚡️
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7 min readNov 22, 2016

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This is Part 2 of a 5 part series about why designing a chatbot was the hardest thing I’ve ever designed. This article will explain the fundamental elements of chatbots, signifiers and affordances, so you can leverage that knowledge to hack around the system easier.

This series is a follow-up to The Ultimate Guide to Chatbots article I wrote and a sample

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