The VMware user experience team is expanding! We’re growing, and have positions available for interns, new college graduates, and experienced professionals.
My team put together a quick video to talk about what it’s like to work here. Check it out!
Monthly Archives: March 2011
how do you use VMware Fusion?
My friends on the Fusion team have a question for you: how do you use VMware Fusion? Go to that link and tell us how you use it! Personally, my primary use of Fusion is to run OneNote.
In other Fusion news, we were nominated for the About.com Readers’ Choice Awards in the “Best Application for Running Windows” category. To celebrate, we’re offering 20% off (worldwide!) on Fusion 3 using code VOTE4FUSION.
how the user experience of Angry Birds contributes to its success
I stumbled across an interesting article recently: Why Angry Birds is so successful and popular: a cognitive teardown of the user experience. It’s a great discussion how all of its user experience components together have made it such a highly-successful game.
I especially find the discussion of response time to be relevant, not just for game design. We often assume that response time should be as short as possible, but that’s not really true. Response time in Angry Birds is used to help you learn how to play the game and correct errors. I think that this line is the one that every software engineer should take to heart:
The bottom line on how Angry Birds manages response time: fast is good, clever is better.